Legault threatens sanctions as he loses patience with Quebec’s family doctors
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Premier François Legault is promising to identify and sanction all family doctors who don't work hard enough for his liking.
The Quebec premier argued Wednesday that just like a teacher or a firefighter, a doctor cannot simply decide to work two days a week.
Saying he is fed up with a 'minority' of general practitioners who are not taking on enough patients, Legault said he may legislate to transfer their names to the CEOs of regional health boards, the CISSS and CIUSSS.
“My patience has reached its limit," he said in a press scrum at the National Assembly. “But I would not want to penalize all family doctors, because there is a majority who do a good job and take care of patients, so we must be able to do it doctor by doctor.”
The premier spoke of possible 'accommodations' or 'exceptions' for older physicians, among others.
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