Is it a long wait to see a doctor in Canada?

General emergencies have to wait at least 2 hours to get to the hospital, unless you are dying, and it's the hospital's job to keep you from dying in the hospital and then send you to your family doctor.

General illnesses have to make an appointment with your family doctor first, and you usually have to wait a few days or 1 week. If you want a checkup, you have to make an appointment for that as well, and in some cases you can't get a checkup until months later.

If it's one of those walk-in doctors, you have to wait at least a couple hours.