I do know that Ontario’s MRI machines are running 24 hours a day due to the demand and depending on your situation you could wait up to 6 months, again sig less than the 18 months reported here.
Just offering a personal experience on this one . . . Ian was booked to get an MRI on his knee (so not life-threatening, but certainly something that pained him every day) - booked the appointment in May . . . and the MRI was scheduled for the following June, 13 months later, at 8:30 pm, 185 km away. A month before it was due, he got a call pushing it out a month longer. So he waited just over 14 months in total.
Two months after the MRI he called the doctor's office to find out why he hadn't heard any results, only to find the time had been so long that his doctor had actually died in the meantime!
Obviously the death of the doctor is just a strange sidebar, but the wait time and distance were certainly real.
As the other Canadians have said, YMMV!
