When a CT scan in September (one year after major surgery for bile duct cancer) found problems in my pancreas it took two months for an MRI and I was told not to worry about it.  Six weeks after that bad news I finally got a biopsy that confirmed cancer.  I finally started getting chemo treatment two weeks ago.  That's just short of six months in total.  Now I'm doomed.  If I'd known, I'd have driven to Buffalo or Cleveland and knocked months off the wait and treatment times.  Yes, I'd have to pay.  I'm not rich but I own a mortgage-free house in Toronto.  That would buy a lot of care and my life is worth more to me than my house.

FYI, Trillium Hospital in Mississauga closes its MRI overnight due to lack of demand, they tell me.  Apparently most hospitals outside central Toronto do also.