That being said, what you're dealing with IS insane. I assume if you went private, you could get in sooner?[/QUOTE]

You can only do private for certain things.
MRI's can be done privately. When I did my cervical MRI, I called to make an appointment and got in the next day.

I can't see a movement neuro privately. We only have a handful of them that work out of the university and they don't work privately.

In my city (and it's a large Canadian city) there are only 3 neuro's (not specialty neuro's just regular ones) that even work privately. One of them is my neuro (works both privately and in the public system). I saw him through the public system because he denied seeing me privately (I don't know why). If he accepted me as a private patient I could have gotten an appointment with him within a week. Public system I waited 6 months (and only got in b/c my doctor kept calling in)