I’ve worked on the front lines of Quebec’s health care system for decades, as a unit coordinator, a hospital-based internist, service chief and professor to future physicians.

I’ve lived through reform after reform, each one claiming it would fix a system straining under its own weight.

Now comes Bill 106, and once again it feels like the most important voices have been ignored: those of health care professionals, and those of patients.

Over the years, doctors have become experts at doing more with less. We’ve worked through chronic understaffing, stayed late to cover extra shifts and adapted to antiquated systems, all to ensure that patients didn’t feel the full weight of a system on the verge of collapse.

I bet most Quebecers don’t realize that physicians too often still rely on fax

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