The very same thing happened to people with atrial fibrillation. Many years ago, people would present, be cautioned to change their lifestyles, given medicine, and their physicians told researchers that this protocol seemed to work well for most patients. When the researcher contacted the families, they found that the reason none of the patients seemed to come back to their doctors for more care after three or four years is because most of them had died.

In Canada, and depending a bit on which province, the wait for a cardiologist can be three months, for a ENT a year, for orthopedic surgery six months to a year, depending whether or not it's a work-related injury and the surgery is fir 'worker's compensation', for an electrophysiologist you must be referred, there are workups needed by the new doctor, you go for a first consult, and then the intervention is scheduled...so all told about eight months. If it's an emergency, six days.