This is why @Prageru cant be relied upon for honest analysis. Example: They condemn Canadian system based on anecdote of someone waiting 3 months from diagnosis of prostate cancer to surgery in Canada. In USA, the *median* time for that diagnosis & ANY treatment is 77 days.../1
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1404892214845652995
...if treatment is at an academic medical center, the median time between diagnosis and treatment initiation - called the TTI - is 87 days in the USA. In other words, the condemnation of the Canadian system by @prageru is citing something that is identical in the USA system.../2
...this is why these criticisms have to be analyzed. @prageru & their ilk always select things like time for treatment of prostate cancer and hip replacement to condemn Canadian system, hiding that the times are identical in the USA. Here's why: Prostate cancer is one of the.../3
...slowest growing cancers. Hip replacement is an elective surgery. Neither is emergent. There are limited numbers of operating rooms and surgeons. And so timing is triaged - the urgent surgeries where fatality rates explode based on high TTI get done first. The TTI studies.../4
...for prostate cancer point out one consequence of the typically high TTI in *every* country. It's not fatality rates. It's not spread of cancer. It's whining by patients who wanted immediate treatment, who wanted to shove themselves ahead of those with fast growing cancers.../5
...so when you see @prageru write these kinds of things, don't take them at face value. They are deceptive, and they either know it and are putting out propaganda, or they are ignorant. Either way, if you have diagnosis of prostate cancer anywhere, your TTI will likely be high.
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