Lots of medical stories this week.

There are too many babies being born for Montreal hospitals to handle, although you don't keep the population down by establishing a quota for accouchements.

The anesthetists at Sacré-Cœur hospital are refusing to play along with the Quebec government's experiment with a partenariat public-privé.

Operators for Urgences-Santé are threatening to strike, having been without a contract for four years. Ambulance drivers, also without a contract, held a demo this week too. Urgences-Santé labour actions are restrained by the essential services law.

Finally, two nurses at the Jewish General have been sacked and suspended for nicking patients' painkillers. Class act, boys.
posted at 10:02