It took me two months in Chicago to see a general practitioner and I'm still waiting (4 months later) for an in-network physical therapist to start taking non-critical, new patients for a back issue. Everything is completely understaffed and overwhelmed, even the services that aren't even associated with emergency care are swamped. Heck, getting just a dentist appointment now is a multi-month out scheduling nightmare with a side of random cancellations because the staff got COVID followed by being rescheduled several more months out and hoping to be bumped again.