Your socialized health care horror story of the day. In the capital city and surrounding region of a wealthy G7 economy, no surgeon was available for a routine operation:

As Dany waited for an ambulance to take him there, with the pain in his side growing unbearable, he was confused about why he had to go so far for what he thought was a simple surgery…
When he got to the hospital, there was no sign of his son — who didn’t show up for another hour and a half because paramedics took a wrong turn on the highway.
“I could hear them asking directions to people outside because they didn’t know where they were,” Dany said.
Once the paramedics had found their way, they then mistakenly unloaded their patient at the Montreal Children’s Hospital before they finally delivered him to the Montreal General Hospital 15 minutes after midnight…
What’s worse, he added, is that Dany developed peritonitis, an inflammation that, if untreated, can be life-threatening, as it stops the normal movement of the intestines.
It was his father’s biggest worry. “That’s all we hear in the news nowadays: Somebody gets appendicitis, they get sent home by a hospital and then they get peritonitis and die.

(Via Right-Wing News)