The Wait Operation Timed Out

We've been experiencing this SQL error with one of our sites lately. When I ran the offending stored procedure in SSMS, it ran in under a second. Running the page with this stored procedure would hang for 30 seconds and then time out.

The quick fix is to run the following:

 DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS
 DBCC FREEPROCCACHE

This is just a temporary fix. I need to dig into the real issues behind these errors.