The best sentence of the week was launched by my friend Anne-Marie, who is a nurse.
“While we are facilitating medical access to death, people are dying for lack of medical access to live… Definitely, everything is fine! »
Admit it, there is no better way to sum up the situation!
THERE IS A HOLE IN MY BUCKET
In fact, the entire system is breaking down.
Education, justice, immigration…
And health, of course.
Minister Christian Dubé is giving himself three years to straighten out the health care system in Quebec.
Good luck !
Because the task will be titanic.
We cannot go there in stages, in small bites. Everything needs to be completely changed! And at the same time !
At once !
Because everything is interconnected.
Why do we use private agencies? Because there is a lack of nurses in the network.
Why is there a lack of nurses in the network? Because young people are not interested in becoming nurses.
Why are young people not interested in becoming nurses? Because they don’t want to be forced to work overtime.
Why are nurses forced to work overtime? Because there is a labor shortage.
Why are we in a labor shortage? Because working conditions push nurses to leave the public service to go to private agencies.
And that the more nurses there are in the agencies, the fewer there are in the network, etc., etc. It’s the dog running following its tail.
Like the song of the guy who has a bucket with a hole in it but can’t plug the hole in his bucket because to plug it he has to cut straw with a blade that he has to sharpen with a wet stone, and that he cannot draw water to wet his stone BECAUSE HIS BUCKET HAS A HOLE!
In short, you can’t change a link in the chain, you have to change the whole chain!
Can you imagine the work?
THE VULTURES
This week, on QUB radio, I was talking to Natalie Saké-Doucet, who is a doctor of nursing…
She had a strong image to talk regarding the health system.
Private agencies, she says, are like vultures in the desert flying over a guy who is dying of thirst.
No matter how much you keep the vultures away, you won’t solve the problem: the guy will continue to die of thirst.
It is politically profitable to attack the agencies, says Ms. Saké-Doucet. But the real problem is the poor working conditions in the health network.
This is what attracts agencies! Who rejects the young! And that weakens the network!
And the worse the conditions are, the fewer nurses you have in the network, and the more they go to the agencies…
In short, it is the squaring of the circle.
Quebecers have a lot of respect for Mr. Dubé.
But allow me to be skeptical regarding the three-year timeline.
I know it would help the CAQ get re-elected in 2026!
But that seems completely unrealistic to me.
- Listen to Richard Martineau’s program every day from 8:30 a.m. on QUB radio :
The wokes and the weather
My friend Michel told me the other day that wokes are like the weather.
We must always take into account the “feeling”.
It is -10 outside, but basically, with the “feeling”, it is as if it was -20.
Same for the wokes.
When you make a joke, it may seem banal, harmless, but for a woke, this little prank that you launched like that, on Twitter or Facebook, becomes – with the “feeling” – a terrible insult that deserves to be denounced in the National Assembly.
Never underestimate the power of “feeling”!
The national anthem of Quebec
In the matter of health transfers, François Legault suffered another rebuff from Ottawa.
Forget My country is winterfrom Vigneault.
The national anthem of Quebec is:
” Monday morning
François Legault gets on a train
He’s going to Ottawa to meet Justin
But as it was not there
Francois Legault said:
“Since it’s like that, we’ll be back on Tuesday!”
Tuesday morning
François Legault gets on a train
He’s going to Ottawa to meet Justin
But as it was not there
Francois Legault said:
“Since it’s like that, we’ll be back on Wednesday!”
Etc. »
No matter how hard we knock, the door remains closed…
Rites of a another era
When I was little, in Verdun, there were bachelor parties every two days.
We tied a guy in the box of a truck, then we drove him around town while his friends poured beer, ketchup and mustard on his head.
It terrified me and my sister.
Luckily, we don’t do that anymore. We find it too wild…
The organizers of initiations in junior hockey did not receive the memo?
