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On 2025-04-24 5:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 24, 2025 at 12:32:51 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I saw this article just now and found myself thinking about indentured
>>> servitude of all things:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-bill-83-law-doctors-study-public-private-1.7517752
>>>
>>> I don't know exactly how indentured servitude worked back in the day. It
>>> was certainly different from slavery in that slavery was for life unless
>>> your owner freed you and that slaves could be inherited.
>>>
>>> I know that indentured servitude was typically for a period of 5 to 7
>>> years and that you were free to go your own way after that. However, I'm
>>> not sure if you received a salary or only room and board while you were
>>> doing your servitude.
>>>
>>> Certainly, these doctors are NOT working for free or for room and board
>>> but I find myself wondering if a court challenge will find judges
>>> telling Sante Quebec (Health Quebec in French) that they are violating
>>> the human rights of doctors by forcing them to practice in the public
>>> sector for 5 years whether they like it or not.
>>
>> Does the U.S. recognize Canadidian medical degrees? If they are recognized, it
>> seems to me if I was a Canadidian  med school graduate, I'd get a work visa
>> and move to the U.S. to practice.
> 
> Hell, we let in medical practitioners from Pakistan that don’t even know
> the English names for the drugs. I can’t imagine we wouldn’t let in
> Canadians.
> 
> Siri says we do.
> 
> 
I wonder how Quebec will react when suddenly no one is going to medical 
school in Quebec due to these new requirements? I'm guessing they find 
that they have to pay a salary comparable to what private practitioners 
are getting....

-- 
Rhino