Montreal Doctors

• Quebec private doctors challenge law forcing five years of public system work

  Quebec’s private doctors' federation challenges a law requiring new doctors to work five years in the public system, calling it discriminatory and harmful to patient care.

  Canada

  Jan 29
  
• Civil rights lawyer wants Quebec permit system for family doctors declared unconstitutional

  The move comes after Health Minister Christian Dubé recently reduced the number of new family doctors who are allowed to practise in Montreal.

  Canada

  Oct 8, 2021
  
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• Montreal doctors use ‘heated chemotherapy’ on 3-year-old boy with sarcoma

  While the technique is growing in popularity, CHU Ste-Justine pediatric surgeon Nelson Piché believes it has never been used on such a young patient in Canada.

  Canada

  Jul 20, 2021
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• As COVID-19 cases spike in Quebec, doctors call for tightened restrictions in Montreal

  In Quebec, the number of pandemic-related hospitalizations jumped by 16 to 503 as the third wave of COVID-19 sets in.

  Health

  Apr 2, 2021
• Montreal General Hospital doctors, trauma staff speak out against gun violence

  According to Statistics Canada, there were 223 gun-related homicides in Canada in 2016 — 44 more than in 2015. 

  Canada

  Apr 3, 2019
• Art galleries instead of the pharmacy: Montreal doctors to prescribe visits to museum

  Doctors in Montreal will soon be writing prescriptions that send patients to the art gallery instead of the pharmacy under a partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2018