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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
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @02:39AM
Here's a story I learned about modern medicine from a good friend of mine. I'll call him Jack here, just to keep things safe. Jack worked at a hospital. By day, he was a small time programmer for the hospital, and by night he managed prostitutes. Yeah, he's that kind of guy. Anyway, he was slowly working on getting his online degree in chemical mathematics when, one day during his day job, he met his first encounter with Just-In-Time Compilation. He was pretty new to this concept, but he realized the potential to expand JIT beyond merely programming. Right around this time he started putting less effort into his programming, opting to focus more on his degree. He was starting to specialize in topics he didn't even need for his degree. Groundbreaking topics. Jack knew he was going to change the world...if his theory panned out.
Fast forward about 8 years. Kids in his area start showing up pregnant, but the police can't find any perpetrators. What's going on, people wondered. Well I'll tell you what, it's Jack. As I mentioned, at night Jack managed the prostitutes at the hospital. This, of course, included the newborn infant prostitutes in the hospital's newborn nursery. When Jack heard about the pregnancies, he was elated. His theory had proven successful. He rushed to the head administrator of the hospital to announce his discovery.
But just what had Jack done? He invented a medicine which improved the lifetime of his sperm by several decades. Ever since they were in the nursery, those kids have had his sticky tadpole friends wriggling around inside their wombs. As soon as the first egg descended, his tadpoles attacked it without mercy. The future pregnancy was the proof of Jack's discovery. The phenomenon became known as Just-In-Time Impregnation.
Now Jack is known as a hero, not just to his town, but to the whole world. Jack's hospital received a surge of outside funding due to the discovery, and they built a new female care unit, which they named after Jack. Where is he now? He currently sits as the head of the department which governs that unit. There, every woman is utilized as they were intended. Next time, I may tell you the backstory behind the naming of the hospital building conjoined to Jack's: the Nickson File Cabinet Department.