Publicity Campaign

The Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec has launched a vast publicity campaign to show politicians that there are many ways to find new resources to balance the public finances. All of these are concrete and easily applicable measures that the government could put in place without affecting Quebecers’ fiscal burden. Moreover, all of these measures come from previous propositions or declarations made by highly respected sources such as the Auditor General of Quebec, the Montreal Economic Institute and others. For the public’s benefit, for each proposition, facts, data, studies and reports have been gathered and placed within a website designed especially to support this campaign.

The campaign Expertisehasaprice.com (lexpertiseaunprix.com) truly demonstrates that there is money available out there and await political decisions be made accordingly in a timely fashion. Not only the estimated sums available by the different propositions would help solve the economic deficit, but they would also help in solving the wage discrepancy for public sector professionals.

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Health Questions Totally Eclipsed of Discussions

Health, a sector representing an important part of Quebec’s budget and where the financial needs keep soaring for many reasons, health will not be part of discussions by the Charest government during the Rencontre économique 2010.

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The humanitarian initiative undertaken by the FMSQ after the January earthquake that shook Haïti shows that medical specialists really care.

On January 14, hours after the first images showing the devastation caused by the earthquake that struck Haïti, the FMSQ sent a total of $30,000 to Doctors Without Borders and Médecins du Monde Canada and invited all its members and retirees to participate in the relief aid fund URGENCE HAÏTI set up specially for the occasion.

The appeal to the medical specialists generated overall more that $220,000 that were distributed to three organizations giving medical care in Haïti and where medical specialists from Quebec are involved.

Doctors Without Borders: 75 000 $
Doctors of the World Canada: 85 000 $
Center for International Studies and Cooperation (CISC) : 60 000 $

To all those who responded present to the FMSQ’s appeal for help, thank you in the name of the Haïtian people.

Euthanasia: The Key Points of the FMSQ Survey

On February 15, the FMSQ presented the Droit de mourir dans la dignité (in french only) memoire to the members of the Commission de la santé et des services sociaux.

Euthanasia has now become one of the issues facing our society today. Since doctors an intimately concerned with this delicate question, the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (the FMSQ) requested IPSOS DESCARIE to conduct a survey of active FMSQ members to learn their opinion. The survey was conducted by Internet and by mail from August 28 to September 15, 2009. The response rate was 23%, with a margin of error of 1.9%, 19 times out of 20.

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Creation of the Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux : La FMSQ prend position

On January 12, the FMSQ presented a memoire concerning the setting of the Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux to the members of the Commission de la santé et des services sociaux.

To read the memoire (in French), click here.