{"id":3027,"date":"2021-01-24T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2021-01-24T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:23:13","slug":"canberra-man-does-diy-surgery-after-waiting-years-for-medical-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/canberra-man-does-diy-surgery-after-waiting-years-for-medical-help\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS News: Canberra man does DIY surgery after waiting years for medical help"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ABC News reports: &#8220;An electrician says he grew so sick of waiting for elective surgery at Canberra Hospital that he took matters into his own hands, using a utility knife to excise a painful grape-sized cyst that was affecting his work. The desperate and potentially dangerous decision to perform DIY surgery \u2014 which has been strongly warned against by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and ACT Health<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 was taken after the Canberra man waited twice the required timeframe for elective surgery in the ACT&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-01-22\/canberra-man-does-diy-surgery-after-waiting-years-for-hospital\/13081324\">Continue reading article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ABC News reports: &#8220;An electrician says he grew so sick of waiting for elective surgery at Canberra Hospital that he took matters into his own hands, using a utility knife to excise a painful grape-sized cyst that was affecting his work. The desperate and potentially dangerous decision to perform DIY surgery \u2014 which has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3031,"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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ABS News: Canberra man does DIY surgery after waiting years for medical help - Novari Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABC News reports: &quot;An electrician says he grew so sick of waiting for elective surgery at Canberra Hospital that he took matters into his own hands, using a utility knife to excise a painful grape-sized cyst that was affecting his work\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.novarihealth.com.au\/canberra-man-does-diy-surgery-after-waiting-years-for-medical-help\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ABS News: Canberra man does DIY surgery after waiting years for medical help - 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