Hip Replacement

• ‘Super disappointing’: N.B. woman on stepfather’s painful wait for hip surgery

  A Moncton, N.B. woman is raising concerns about the health-care system, as her elderly stepfather deals with a lengthy wait for a hip replacement. 

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  Jan 16, 2024
  
• ‘Bone-on-bone pain’: B.C. woman pays for private hip surgery in Alberta

  A B.C. woman fed up with uncertainty about surgical wait times says she spent more than $34,000 to have her hip replaced at a private clinic in Calgary.

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  Oct 16, 2023
  
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• Ross Memorial Hospital performs first hip surgery in Ontario using Insignia femoral stem implant

  Annually the hospital conducts about 150 hip replacements, with surgeon Dr. Sebastian Heaven overseeing the majority of them.

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  Feb 21, 2023
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• Last-second surgery cancellation leaves B.C. senior waiting up to 6 more months in pain

  "I want to say the system sucks -- it's not a nice word, but it's not fair to treat human beings like that," Shirley Colwell told Global News.

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  Jan 18, 2023
• N.S. surgeon performs first robot-assisted hip replacement in Canada

  Dartmouth General Hospital unveiled new technology that it hopes will ease surgical wait times and assist patients through hip and knee replacements.

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  Jan 13, 2023
• ‘I wouldn’t wait’: Manitoban finally getting hip replacement after years of waiting calls for change

  A Winnipegger who says he's been in pain for over two years is, finally, days away from receiving a new titanium hip, and says he wouldn't wish his situation on anyone.

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  May 11, 2022
• Manitoba man travels overseas for knee surgery, bills province for cost

  Max Johnson was tired of waiting for elective knee surgery, so he travelled to Lithuania to get the procedure done right away and has invoiced the province for the cost.

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  Nov 19, 2021
• ‘The pain is incredible’: Okanagan man, 50, desperate for hip-replacement surgery

  "All they want to do is push prescription drugs on me, take this, take that. I refuse to; just fix what is broken," says Jamie Angus. 

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  Jan 7, 2021
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• Wait times for hip and knee procedures on the rise in Alberta

  It's taking longer for hip and knee replacement surgeries to get done in Alberta, according to a Canadian Institute for Health Information report .

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  Apr 12, 2018
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• Manitobans face some of the longest waits for surgery in Canada

  A new report shows Manitobans are waiting longer for joint replacement and cataract surgeries.

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  Apr 12, 2018