The Guardian reports doctors from Quebec have published an open letter demanding better allocation of public funds.
"We, Quebec doctors, are asking that the salary increases granted to physicians be cancelled and that the resources of the system be better distributed for the good of healthcare workers," reads the open letter.
It was drafted late last month by Médecins québécois pour le régime public, a group of doctors and medical students who support public healthcare.
So far the letter has attracted some 800 signatures from people with a spine and media attention.
Additional coverage on The New York Times, BBC News and The Washington Post
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @01:08AM (3 children)
We need to get to where we can imagine a US doctor, hospital, or pharma doing the same thing.
Healthcare needs to be about healthcare, not primarily about wealth transfer.
Congrats to the reasonable folks up North.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 17 2018, @01:35AM (2 children)
Being a medical doctor started sucking decades ago. Just as there was a saturation of college nursing programs, there was a saturation of law students looking for easy money.
The hours are exhausting and suck shit and you gain a real contempt for humanity because, like being a cop, you're seeing the worst more than the best. Thanks to all those hungry law now-graduates looking for easy money, your malpractice insurance will eat up all that big money you should be making and when you're not working you'll be either drinking yourself to sleep or sleeping.
Yeah, in the movies, you see those hot-shit pediatric neurosurgeons driving their Porsches and day-tripping on their fishing boats. Though to be honest specialist doctors have it a little better than Joe Shit the M.D.
Fun fact - Once worked for a company that made a wand-like thingy with a big loop in the end of it. Its purpose was to help ensure that surgical staff didn't leave any instruments inside their patients.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @01:55AM (1 child)
You say sooooo many stupid things. Is there anything you aren't stupid at? Serious now. Anything?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @02:40AM
Whatever other talents EF may have, he's damned good at trolling sensitive snowflakes. That was already pointed out above, but you seem to love that trollbait. Keep crying trollbreath.