{
  "id": 3997670,
  "title": "Nova Scotians wait over 500 ‘painful’ days for surgery consultations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nova-scotians-wait-over-500-painful-days-for-surgery-consultations-3997670",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-28T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotians-wait-500-days-for-surgery-consultations-9.7320570"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "When the consultation and surgery wait times are combined, the total waits for hip and knee replacements in Nova Scotia are longer than they were a decade ago. In 2015, Nova Scotians could expect a total median wait of 265 days for a hip replacement — in 2025, it was 292 days.",
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      {
        "outlet": "CBC Canada",
        "title": "Nova Scotians wait over 500 ‘painful’ days for surgery consultations",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/nova-scotians-wait-over-500-painful-days-for-surgery-consultations",
        "published": "2026-08-28T09:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}