No sooner had Premier François Legault announced Wednesday that formal talks with the Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec had restarted after being torpedoed a month ago by the passage of Bill 2 than word began rippling throughout the small community of Hudson, west of Montreal, that the town’s only medical clinic was closing .

The news that negotiations are back on should have offered a tiny sliver of hope to family medicine groups (GMFs in French) teetering on the brink. But depending on the pace of discussions — and what, if any, concessions can be wrung from a government that foisted a new remuneration model on doctors with a special law — it may not be enough to prevent the implosion of primary care in Quebec.

More and more clinics could start announcing their plans to

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