Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: hospital strike

  • The resident doctors’ strike: Montreal, 1934

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “We don’t want him because he’s a Jew. But we are not antisemites.”1—From a statement by striking residents at Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal Samuel Rabinovitch, M.D., (1909–2010) graduated first in his class from the Faculté de Médecine of the University of Montreal in 1934. His four brothers were physicians. He applied for and…