Waiting time for elective surgery is growing across the country, and becoming a hot political issue.

For many years the focus of health politics has been the elective surgery in the fit and relatively young.

Those are but a few reasons to try to minimize elective surgery.

You avoid the pain and risks of elective surgery for your baby.

This is, after all, elective surgery on fairly healthy eyes.

The bonus: less elective surgery, more primary care for all.

More than 660,000 people are on waiting lists for elective surgery nationwide.

So in the end, it seems that the tax on elective surgery had mostly symbolic value.

According to the report, he waited a few days before going in to have "elective surgery" performed.

An extra $10 million will be spent to reduce elective surgery waiting lists over four years.

In 2002, he died of complications due to minor elective surgery.

Patients facing elective surgery are now able to donate up to six units of blood.

In most cases, circumcision is elective surgery, which means there isn't a medical reason for it.

The hospital also hosts the regional department for innovations in elective surgery.

And what was the transplant team thinking in approving an elective surgery on a 69-year-old?

Tony - 3 days ago Maybe her next elective surgery could be for a personality transplant.

When physician recommends elective surgery, it may be required by the insurance plan.

Elective surgery and other nonemergency procedures will have to wait that day.

The victims were all relatively youthful, and had died within twenty-four hours of elective surgery.

Scheduled elective surgery for scores of patients with private physicians was postponed.

Patients facing elective surgery might consider donating their own blood in advance.

There would still be dangers in it, and normally I wouldn't do purely elective surgery.

In a fashion emergency, do people ever have elective surgery to remove a rib or two?

The hospitals have canceled elective surgery and diverted emergency cases.

Elective surgeries are being delayed by weeks, he said, and some patients will be referred to other hospitals.