Quattro! More from the DOG Patch.

Some more offerings in our fourth effort in these pages to get rid of this damned dander. It ' s still up! Here in the DOG Patch, D is for Dander, and the dander, in spite of smatterings of good new lately, has still got itself up.Vive le Qu ébec!Nodbody ' s taking sides in Canadian separatism, if it ' s still brewing north of the border. But a certain sense of fairness surely prevails, and we have to give them a rousing " jolly good " (whoops) among Canadian physicians. At least in the one province.  As reported by theWaPo,a large group of doctors there have produced a petition (interesting to read here) asking that their proposed recent salary increases be rolled back. They ' re concerned about the sorry state of care and salary support throughout their province and nation. Pretty astonishing. It remains for those of us suffering from DTs (dander-toting) to investigate how it ' s being received in places like Ontario, or even moreso, Alberta and Saskatchewan. It ' s also intriguing that the signatories include almost half subspecialists--not just a bunch of lefty primary-care types. Ah, but there are 700 or so signatories here. And Quebec has over 17,000physicians. ' Nuff said. Let ' s take back that explanation point above. Make it a question mark, and nonetheless hats-off to those young and resident physicians who signed the petition.Should Textbook Authors Declare Conflict of Interest?Have to admit, this hadn ' t exactly been uppermost in our minds--I ' v...
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