Re: ‘Soviet prison for doctors’ (The Gazette, Oct. 25)

In the early hours of Saturday, while the rest of us slept, the Coalition Avenir Québec government invoked closure to fast track Bill 2, which imposes a new salary structure on physicians and stiff penalties for pressure tactics.

This draconian bill has thrown such a negative light on doctors that, judging by the nasty comments exploding on social media, one would think doctors are the enemy of the state. Please allow me to paint a different picture.

My husband has been practising medicine for 27 years. Before starting medical school, he worked at the Montreal General Hospital as a porter, bringing patients from their rooms to various departments for appointments, delivering tests to labs and carrying blood for transfusions or to th

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