Doctors speaking

Hundreds of thousands waiting for medical imaging in BC: radiologists

October 3, 2022

Radiologists are the latest group of specialists to ring alarm bells with the province as an estimated one million patients wait to see a specialist in BC.

Doctors of BC said it shares the specialists’ concerns. “Patients who wait — sometimes years — for specialist care often see their conditions worsen while being in unbearable pain,” president Ramneek Dosanjh said in a statement.

Dosanjh called the situation “unacceptable” and said doctors are facing “huge moral distress” because they are unable to help.