Orthopaedic surgeons: their surgical waiting list has doubled in the last 10 months from 14,000 to roughly 28,000 today. A large contribution to that surgical waiting list is orthopaedics, so the orthopaedic surgeon should know a lot about surgical waiting lists. The president of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association, surgeon John McKie, stated recently in a media release called "Elective Surgery Crisis": (1) "We can't blame COVID for the ballooning waiting lists"; (2) "The numbers of people waiting for elective surgery is much worse than the numbers released by the government." Minister Little, this is what a health crisis looks like. 