The bill to modify the remuneration of doctors presented Thursday by the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, is “the highlight in the coffin of the profession”, worries a family doctor in the Beauce region.
“It is a lack of respect and a sign of misunderstanding of his own network and, unfortunately, it will probably be the nail in the coffin of the profession if he goes ahead,” says Dre Patricia Caron, family doctor at the Saint-Gédéon medical clinic.
Dre Caron launched a cry from the heart, on social networks, following the announcement of Minister Dubé’s bill, which claims more performance. Many colleagues have entrusted their despair to him, many thinking of leaving the health boat for another area, before sinking with it. The same question comes back constantly: “How can they answer such a wacky demand?”.
Dre Patricia Caron
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“It is not because he will take out his law that everyone is going to have care. We are already in insufficient quantity and unfortunately, what this law will do is that the colleagues who have been thinking about it for a while will leave, “continues Dre Caron.
The family doctor believes that she and his colleagues perform in a “sick, with obsolete infrastructure and technologies dating from the 1970s”.
Enough “Doctor Bashing”
-A little further to the north, Dr. Sophie Leclerc, a doctor from Havre-Saint-Pierre, claims to have enough “heaviness” and “Doctor Bashing that intensifies from the government”.
In a message also published on social networks and set off again hundreds of times, the young doctor of 30 years said multiplying care in the region and “lemon is in a hurry”.
“I work 60 hours a week, I have little or no vacation, I teach, I go to CHSLD,” says Dre Leclerc. If I am asked to work more and be more efficient, I don’t know how I could do it. ”
Touch the bottom
On Wednesday, Prime Minister François Legault was shooting red bullets against the Quebec omnipractic federation, saying that around the third of doctors “must do more”.
“The government asks us to be everywhere at the same time. There is nothing that is substantial in there and expectations are absolutely unrealistic, denounces the Leclerc Dre. Turn that on figures and performance indices, we forget that there are people behind that need time and care. ”
Dre Caron finishes by saying that elected officials should listen to people in the field to find solutions and also be attributable to current reality.
“We have been sinking for years and there, the bottom, we are touching it. The population will pay for these bad decisions, ”she finishes.
