Stitches in my experience is generally a 4 hour wait here.

You need any kind of complex surgery like knee surgery or back surgery you are going to be waiting 43 months. You need private insurance. You will get reasonably prompt treatment if its an emergency - if you had a compound fracture of your knee then you'll get surgery probably the next working day. My dad has some neurological issues probably tied to the vaccine. A consult with a neurologist was a 7 month wait. He took a turn for the worse and got carted off to hospital on Thursday night and saw the neurologist first thing on Monday morning after they ruled out the basics like stroke.