Health committee  A screening colonoscopy showing a polyp costs about $1,000, including care. If that same polyp is found only two years later and has turned into colon cancer, the costs can go up to $20,000. I'm talking about a public system where the patient will have to receive radiation or che

Health committee  Is it okay like this? Can you hear me better?

Health committee  Actually, I finished answering Mr. Thériault's question. I could add a lot, but in short, it is very important that we continue to train staff. Of course, training staff costs money, and money is very scarce in the Quebec public system right now.

Health committee  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that early retirements will decrease as the pandemic situation improves and people return to the fold. If you're an operating room nurse and you have been asked three times to work in an area that you are not used to, and to literally count the de

Health committee  I don't think it's justified. I think it is important to invest money right away. We need to make the professions more attractive to try to reduce the number of people retiring or simply transitioning to other professions. Money is not the answer to everything. I think everyone

Health committee  When we brainstormed after the first wave, we made an initial observation. All the hospitals in Quebec were taken by storm, and we had to offload the surgical activities and reassign the operating room staff to other departments in the hospital. As a result, we had to stop traini

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the parliamentarians for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to discuss the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic on Quebec patients. My name is Serge Legault, I am a general surgeon in active practice in Laval, near Montreal