{"id":2808,"date":"2020-07-17T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2020-07-17T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T13:40:15","slug":"cbc-news-how-surgical-smoothing-could-help-ease-the-medical-backlog-created-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/cbc-news-how-surgical-smoothing-could-help-ease-the-medical-backlog-created-by-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC News: How Surgical Smoothing Could Help Ease the Medical Backlog Created by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-856024086_WEB-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In their recent article, CBC news reporter Colin Butler details the fact that surgical smoothing could help to eliminate conflict and adds granularity to medical decision-making:<\/p>\n<p>Cancelled surgeries have an\u00a0estimated backlog of 100,000 elective procedures\u00a0that have been delayed because of the pandemic\u00a0\u2013 procedures that range from\u00a0cataract removals to\u00a0knee replacements, cardiac procedures\u00a0and transplants\u00a0\u2013\u00a0all medically necessary and often critical operations that could make real differences in peoples&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/london\/elective-surgery-wait-times-covid-surgical-smoothing-1.5641819\">Read Full Article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In their recent article, CBC news reporter Colin Butler details the fact that surgical smoothing could help to eliminate conflict and adds granularity to medical decision-making: Cancelled surgeries have an\u00a0estimated backlog of 100,000 elective procedures\u00a0that have been delayed because of the pandemic\u00a0\u2013 procedures that range from\u00a0cataract removals to\u00a0knee replacements, cardiac procedures\u00a0and transplants\u00a0\u2013\u00a0all&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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