Gemma Firlotte says New Brunswick’s experiment with private surgical clinics suits her just fine.
The 71-year-old Nigadoo resident was sitting in the waiting area of a Bathurst ophthalmology clinic last week, tape over one eye, waiting for her turn in the operating room.
That’s right: Firlotte was about to undergo cataract surgery in a clinic, not a hospital, something not allowed under provincial law until last fall.
The retired hospital worker said she was getting the operation much faster than if it had been at the Chaleur Regional Hospital, where she used to work.
“People were always complaining and had to wait too long,
