While that system may be good for some things, a number of Canadian acquaintances have loudly complained about waiting inordinately long times for ppointments and procedures (especually knee and hip replacements). According to them, it seems like Canadian Drs., only perform X number of procedures each year, so they tend to "front-end-load" their schedules, hit their nimbers early in the year and pretty much take the rest of the year off, thereby leaving (suffering) patients in the queue until sometime in the following year (if they aren't too far down the list).

While that system may be good for some things, a number of Canadian acquaintances have loudly complained about waiting inordinately long times for ppointments and procedures (especually knee and hip replacements). According to them, Canadian Drs., are only required to perform X number of procedures each year, so they tend to "front-end-load" their schedules, hit their quotas early in the year and pretty much take the rest of the year off, thereby leaving (suffering) patients in the queue until sometime in the following year (if they aren't too far down the list).