Medical specialists to quit over workload, pay issues

Fearing that they will make grave mistakes, a group of reportedly overworked medical specialists from Newfoundland and Labrador are planning to resign over the matter as they see no hope for fair compensation from the province. The thirteen specialists, upset with workload and staffing issues, have handed in resignations that will take effect Feb. 4th.

“This is not a job action,” developmental pediatrician Sandra Luscombe told a news conference Friday.

Many agreed that the province's two-tiered pay system for specialists is unfair.

“My resignation is not a negotiation strategy,” she said afterwards. “It's a leaving strategy” added general internal medicine specialist Julia Trahey, who says that she is so overworked that she is having recurring dreams that she is in front of a tribunal-like inquisition over a phantom mistake made on the job.

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