Many wonderful doctors who cared for the poor had very low incomes because they could not collect most fees, but felt a responsibility to provide care where other physicians may not have been as willing to take on such a generous role. The present problems will not be solved by further privatization. If anything, the problems will be aggravated for most Canadians, for the benefit of a few. Michael Gordon, Toronto. The recent article by two Nova Scotia doctors wishing to give their office equipment and practice away for a dollar and finding no takers is another milestone in the escalating decline of medicine.
All governments can make mistakes and even overlook minor warning symptoms.
However, to ignore the escalating devaluation of medicine is akin to thinking that the Titanic is a little low in the water and will make it in the end. Alan L. Russell, Bramalea, Ont.