Stuck on an elective waitlist? Get vetted overseas options in days, not months.
We're a small Canadian team that finds vetted clinic options abroad for elective imaging, dental, eye surgery, fertility, and keyhole interventional procedures. Three CAD-quoted options inside 48 hours. Every case is clinically reviewed before booking — and some patients are told to stay home.
Typical Canadian gap → vetted alternative
MRI scan9–14 mo wait → ~5 days
Dental implant3–9 mo wait → 1 trip
LASIK (both eyes)$4.8–9k CA → ~$1.8–3.2k VN
Wait estimates from CIHI 2025 + provincial private-clinic schedules. Cost figures from current Canadian private clinic listings vs. partner-clinic quotes. Vietnam timing assumes diagnostics in hand and clinical review complete.
Canadian-led brokerage
We're not the clinic. Not a directory.
Every case clinically reviewed
Before booking. Some patients are told to stay home.
Transparent CAD pricing
Three itemised quotes in 48h. No clinic invoice padding.
Travel + post-op handled
Flights, hotel, day-7 in-country check, 30-day follow-up.
Who we work with
We've deliberately narrowed the offer until our patient cohort is wider than it is today. The list below is what we currently support — nothing more.
This is for you if
- Your Canadian wait is 4+ months for an elective imaging study, dental implant, eye surgery, fertility cycle, or keyhole interventional procedure
- You're medically cleared to fly and have a Canadian doctor for follow-up continuity (a Canadian fertility clinic too, if it's an IVF cycle)
- You can absorb the trip cost ($4-8k typical, all-in) plus a buffer for complications
- You're OK with us telling you to stay home if your case doesn't fit
This isn't for you if
- Acute or emergency cases — go to your local ER
- Major surgery requiring weeks of inpatient recovery (joint replacement, cardiac, oncology)
- Major cosmetic with general anaesthesia (rhinoplasty, breast augmentation) — not in our current scope
- Wait under 3 months — the trip economics don't work
- Cancer, transplant, or anything requiring multi-system Canadian follow-up
What we currently refer for
Seven low-risk procedure categories where the trip math, recovery profile, and continuity-of-care plan all check out. We've deliberately narrowed this list until our patient cohort is wider than it is today.
- MRI / CT imaging
- Dental implants
- LASIK / refractive eye surgery
- Blepharoplasty (eyelid)
- Prostate artery embolization (BPH)
- Uterine fibroid embolization
- IVF / fertility cycles
How we vet a clinic
We don't ship "vetted" from a desk. The criteria below are what
determine whether a clinic moves from pending to
vetted — published in full at
/blog/inside-the-vetting-process.
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Step 1
Public-register accreditation
Verified on the issuing body's register, not the clinic's website.
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Step 2
Surgeon-of-record video call
30-minute call with the actual treating clinician, not a marketing lead.
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Step 3
In-person facility walkthrough
Yes, this means flying. We see the OR, recovery ward, and what happens at 2am.
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Step 4
Complication-rate disclosure
Two years of data for the procedures we'd refer. ~30% of clinics fail this step.
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Step 5
Continuity protocol + named contact
Real if-this-then-that plan. Generic "we'll handle it" answers fail.
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Step 6
First Canadian patient cycle
Status flips to vetted only after one full cycle is complete or in-flight.
Featured clinics
All clinics →At launch most clinics carry a Coordination in progress badge — the hospital is on our shortlist and accreditation is verified, but the direct-referral path or first patient cycle isn't complete yet. We won't show a "Request quote" CTA until both check out. That's the whole policy.
What we currently refer for
All procedures →Seven procedure categories where the trip math, recovery profile, and continuity-of-care plan all check out. We'll add more as our patient cohort grows — not before.
cosmetic
Blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery)
Upper or lower eyelid surgery — day procedure, fast recovery, fits a 5-7 day trip. About 60% cheaper than Canadian private clinics with the same surgeon training pedigree.
CA wait
3-8 mo
Abroad cost
$1,500–$2,800
dental
Dental implant
Single-tooth or multi-tooth dental implants from internationally-trained surgeons. Same industry-standard implant systems as Canadian clinics, half the cost.
CA wait
1-6 mo
Abroad cost
$1,500–$3,000
ophthalmology
LASIK / refractive eye surgery
Laser refractive surgery (LASIK, PRK, SMILE) on modern excimer / femtosecond platforms. Same generation of laser as Canadian private clinics, roughly a third of the price. The case for going abroad is cost, not wait — Canadian private LASIK is fast; it's just expensive.
CA wait
0-2 mo
Abroad cost
$900–$1,600
fertility
IVF (in vitro fertilisation)
A full IVF cycle — stimulation monitoring, egg retrieval under sedation, and fresh or frozen embryo transfer — at JCI-accredited Vietnamese fertility centres for roughly a third of Canadian private pricing. Hormone protocol coordinated with your Canadian fertility clinic before you fly.
CA wait
6-18 mo
Abroad cost
$4,000–$8,000
How a case actually moves
One Canadian point of contact from inquiry through 30-day post-op follow-up. No directory dump, no overseas hard-sell.
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1
Submit a case
Procedure, timeline, budget, province. 4 fields. We don't share with clinics until you approve.
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Clinical review
Your case + Canadian doctor's notes reviewed against partner-clinic eligibility before any quote.
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Three CAD quotes
Itemised, in Canadian dollars, with surgeon credentials and a candid risk note where one applies.
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Booked end-to-end
Flights, hotel near the hospital, ground transport, translator, e-visa. Single itinerary doc.
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In-country + Canadian follow-up
Day-7 in-person check before you fly home, then 30 days of video check-ins and Canadian referrals.
What you can verify about No Wait MD
Policy commitments and structural facts — not stats we can't back up. Patient feedback gets published only with consent and attribution.
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Vetting policy
In-person verified
Every clinic on a 'vetted' status has been visited in person by our Calgary-based team. We don't ship 'vetted' from a desk.
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Coordination model
One Canadian point of contact
From intake through 30-day post-op follow-up — including in-country day-7 check before you fly home.
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Pricing model
Transparent CAD pricing
Three quotes within 48h. All in Canadian dollars. We disclose how we get paid and don't pad clinic invoices.
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Independence
Brokerage, not a clinic
We don't diagnose or treat. We've recommended 'stay home' for cases where the math doesn't work — and will again.
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Scope today
9 procedures · 5 destinations
Currently coordinating care across a vetted and several pending clinics in Vietnam.
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Founder context
Calgary ↔ Vietnam axis
Canadian-led, with permanent on-the-ground presence in Vietnam. Not a directory site reselling intake forms.
No testimonials yet. We're collecting verified patient feedback as our first cohort completes treatment. We don't publish quotes we can't attribute, and we don't display star ratings until we have enough verified responses to mean something.
Ready to submit a case?
Four fields. Forty-eight hours. We'll either come back with three vetted CAD-quoted options, or tell you why this isn't a fit.