THE DOCTOR AND MINISTER OF HEALTH SERVICES EMPLOYEE IS STILL SUBJECT TO THE RULES OF PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE?
Mine "shot" of the Minister of Health and Social Services, Yves Bolduc, in announcing that he accepted the recommendations "of the College Physicians for private abortion clinics and withdrew the regulatory elements that might, claims it does, to force some clinics to close their doors, raised with me some thoughts, some questions?
First question: a physician appointed Minister of Health and Social Services he remains subject to the rules of his profession during the course of his political mandate? If yes, is there no potential conflicts of interest when negotiating the salary rules and working conditions for doctors, generalists and specialists in the institutions of the Network Health and Social Services?
The decision, announced by Yves Bolduc rang as an order of the President of the College of Physicians, where we listened and watched the interviews granted. Unlike the Minister Bolduc, president Yves Lamontagne seemed to control the situation!
few weeks earlier, the Minister Yves Bolduc met along the way the president of the Federation of Medical Specialists, the "heavyweight" Barrette. Was it really to negotiate the remuneration of medical specialists? Or was it not rather to reduce delays Barrette waiting on the list of bariatric surgery!
few days later, Yves Bolduc announced a new surgical ward was put into operation at the Graduate Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology Quebec (formerly Laval Hospital )..., to reduce the waiting list of people "suffering" morbid obesity "! Curious coincidence? Or "bargaining power"?
Often, the medical community in Quebec has challenged the lack of medical leadership of the Ministry of Health and Social Services! Especially during the reign of Marcus efficient Yvan Côté!
Yet during my stay in the civil service - and more precisely for 17 years at the Department of Health and Social Services - I saw passing, the political leadership of the department, two psychiatrists - Denis Lazure and Camille Laurin. Then a doctor-lawyer - Pierre-Marc Johnson - future ex-minister and a doctor preminier International Administrator - Jean Rochon - whose reforms have been sabotaged by a finance minister as much obsessed by the Latin quotations by the decisive "zero."
The first social worker, Ms. Theresa Lavoie-Roux, has advanced social programs and those of women, despite the stays of his colleagues at the Justice and Public Safety. She had bent frank with his prime minister.
This was not the case worker Social Pauline Marois!
Marc-Yvan Côté has managed this department in a masterly, as efficiently as he did for a campaign fund or an electoral organization! During this period, a brief interlude: Guy Chevrette - who tried to leave no stone unturned - and now returned to its roots: in the woods and forest. During the brief career of Prime Minister Daniel Johnson "son", a property manager for the homeless has gone mute before making an exit to Ottawa, Martine Robillard!
And then, you know?
Jean Melançon
