A group of Pontiac physicians have penned an open letter to Quebec’s Health Minister Christian Dubé, requesting that he urgently address the pay disparities for imagery technicians working at the Pontiac Hospital and other facilities in the region.
“We are proud of the services we can still offer to the people of the Pontiac, but with a major salary disadvantage for our technicians, we risk losing them and finding ourselves without these services,” they wrote.
Dr. John Wootton, who oversees the region’s family medicine group and has worked in the Pontiac since 1983, was one of the seven physicians who signed the letter, along with the hospital’s head surgeon, chief of anesthesiology and chief of the emergency department. He said that subjecting local technicians to a “political dogfight” is unacceptable and putting a lot of strain on the local network.
