International Views on the Saskatchewan Doctors’ Strike
In London, England, the Observer commented that
“the withdrawal of services is more than a strike; it is a mutiny. Doctors are throwing away the best tradition of what used to be called a noble profession,”
while the Daily Mail remarked,
“[W]hen doctors strike and neglect patients, the voice of humanity protests.”
In the United States, a Washington Daily News editorial stated:
“Saskatchewan doctors are sick, sick, sick. Their strike has shocked the people of this country and their own country. It would require a whole squad of social psychiatrists to determine how 900 physicians could have turned into sadists. They had decided to punish the 900,000 people of Saskatchewan for voting to set up what they, the people, consider a desirable form of medical economics.”
And in Syracuse, New York, the Herald Tribune commented:
“Regardless of how the dispute is settled, the mask of professional dedication can never be replaced.”
