Union leaders, patients' group wary of potential MUHC CEO

Union leaders and patients-rights advocates are reacting cautiously to the news that a Quebec-trained surgeon in the United States is being courted to become the next head of the McGill University Health Centre.
Although Claude Deschamps’s resumé is impressive, the fact that he has spent most of his career in the U.S. raises concerns that he might not possess the necessary knowledge or skills to deal with Quebec’s underfunded public health-care system, said Denyse Joseph, pres