OSHAWA — Oshawa MPP Jennifer French is highlighting the impact of surgical wait times by sharing the story of an Oshawa man who has been waiting five months and still hasn’t had a needed shoulder surgery scheduled.
With snow and ice on the ground, Steve Border went down after taking a bad step off a deck on Dec. 19.
“I landed on my elbow and immediately felt something in my shoulder,” he explains.
The next day he attended an urgent care clinic in Oshawa. He was sent for an X-ray and ultra sound in short order, although the X-ray found no broken bones, the ultrasound showed damage and he was referred for an MRI for which he waited a month.
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