Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand lower salaries

[Stonepounder]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/03/07/hundreds-of-canadian-doctors-demand-lower-salaries/?utm_term=.2b60bd23b961

In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.

As of Wednesday afternoon, more than 700 physicians, residents and medical students from the Canadian province had signed an online petition asking for their pay raises to be canceled. A group named Médecins Québécois Pour le Régime (MQRP), which represents Quebec doctors and advocates for public health, started the petition Feb. 25.

“We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong public system, oppose the recent salary increases negotiated by our medical federations,” the petition reads in French.

The physicians group said it could not in good conscience accept pay raises when working conditions remained difficult for others in their profession — including nurses and clerks — and while patients “live with the lack of access to required services because of drastic cuts in recent years.”

While this may be 'utterly Canadian' it is also shows what real human beings who act on true Christian principles (whether they are Christian or not) of 'doing unto others as they would have others do unto them', and being 'their brother's keeper'. We here in the US could really take lessons from these Canadian doctors.

[KPN]

1. God's country!

[Upthevibe]

2. Wow.....

I don't even know how to respond.....

[Retrotech]

3. That's a little under 1% of Canadian doctors, by my math.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, even for Canadians. Greed knows no bounds.

[Stonepounder]

6. I believe this petition was only from Quebec doctors.

[Retrotech]

8. Okay then, 3%

[a kennedy]

4. OMGAWD......

how do I move there, no seriously, HOW DO I MOVE THERE.

[FM123]

5. As if Justin Trudeau wasn't enough to tempt me to go north....

[democratisphere]

7. There are real humane human doctors in Quebec Canada!

Good luck getting the American Criminal Enterprise Healthcare System to ever do anything like this! Other parts of the world still give me hope!

[Hassler]

9. To get in...

Have a skill, be under 60 and know how to speak French.

[BigmanPigman]

10. This is how it SHOULD be in

a just and fair society based on humanity. How are we the greatest country on the planet again? I keep forgetting the details that go along with that claim.

[SidDithers]

11. Acting on true atheist principles...

Whether they're atheist or not.



Sid

[Vinca]

12. Wow . . . just wow.

And to hear the GOP talk you'd think they didn't even have hospitals up there.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. As a US physician, I applaud my colleagues.

I accepted a huge paycut (30%) to leave the private sector to take a public health job in the US recently. And it was worth it. But I am old enough that I have no medical school debt to pay off. We need to do something about the insane system in the US that forces new graduates into high paying specialties because they have to pay back half a million in loans. I wonder, in Canada do the doctors have half a million in debt when they leave school?