Quebec doctor embarrassed by pay hikes to colleagues

Embarrassed. That’s how Dr. Arnold Aberman feels about pay increases for doctors in a system where many health care employees are overworked to the point of exhaustion and patient access to needed services is often severely limited.
By noon on Friday, 648 Quebec doctors, including the Beauharnois-based general practitioner, had signed an open letter made public Feb. 25 by Médecins Québécois pour le régime public (MQRP) demanding that a series of pay increases ne