Surgery could certainly be improved. It's taken me literally years to get scheduled for a half-hour procedure (cataract surgery). Scheduling appointments is of course the hangup. First an optometrist has to decide they can't do anything for you (at which point you're under time pressure, driving license etc. are on a clock) and refer you.<p>Then you get an appointment, months away, for an ophthalmologist. They do a screening, which is actually mostly measuring your eyeball for a well-fitting replacement lense. They actually mostly trust the optometrist findings! So that saves half an hour.<p>Then you get an appointment, months away, for the first surgery! Which I've finally achieved (the appointment). Then the second surgery, two weeks after that if all goes well else maybe months more should somebody come down with a cold etc. Fingers crossed.<p>All for a procedure that could have, well, been done in their office immediately? I don't know, haven't been through it, but pretty routine as far as I know.<p>If your car got repaired this way, you'd lose your job and your house before that muffler got replaced.