Doctors’ fees
Sir,—lt is a sad indictment of our members of Parliament that they see fit to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on hand-me-down frigates and other death machines, yet do not move some of these funds into the health and education areas. To suggest that doctors are greedy is incredible. They are in surely the most noble of professions. I, like the Minister of Health, will almost certainly depend on a doctor to prolong or even save my life some day. I will trust his or her skills when that time comes. Those skills must be income-related as well, otherwise all doctors may want to be Ministry of Agriculture veterinarians on $40,000 a year. If the Government lowered the salaries of some civil servants we carry, it could still play war games and pay a higher subsidy to our over-worked and under-paid doctors.—Yours, etc., * G. McRAE. ■ May 24, 1984.
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