From the archives: 'Disgraceful to enrich ourselves,' Dr. Bethune told MDs

This story was first published on August 13, 2011, in the Montreal Gazette.
Even when working, the great majority of the population have little money to spare to spend on the doctor or the dentist.
The Gazette, Monday, Aug. 10, 1936
The Great Depression didn’t so much create a crisis in health care in Montreal as cruelly exaggerate a long-standing one.
In April 1936, a 46-year-old surgeon and member of the Communist Party stepped to the podium to address the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Soc