An unusually prolonged or complex illness, esp. one that causes severe organ dysfunction or threatens life. Catastrophic illnesses often make exceptional demands on patients, caregivers, families, and health care resources.
However, if your current mortgage lender has discounted your current mortgage loan balance, the mandatory waiting period after loan modification is 12 months from the effective date of the loan modification with a 12 months on time payment history which is reflected on your credit report.
Specifically, the average wait time for orthopedic surgery reached 39.6 weeks for treatment, while patients waited an average 17.4 weeks for an appointment with a neurosurgeon. Cancer patients needing radiation experienced the shortest wait times for treatment, at about 3.5 weeks.he report also found that wait times to see a specialist increased in seven provinces between 2012 and 2013, but decreased in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The shortest wait times to see a specialist were in: 1  Ontario, at 6.7 weeks. 2  Quebec, 7.4 weeks.