After medical specialists pressure tactics, family doctors are also now adopting them, deploring the government’s approach, which they consider unconstructive, in its negotiations to renew the framework agreement.

The Federation of General Practitioners of Quebec (FMOQ) announced Tuesday the “progressive initiation of pressure tactics.” Effective immediately, family doctors are being asked to stop participating in medical-administrative activities that do not directly impact patients.

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In this sense, interprofessional meetings related to direct patient care will contin

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