Dear Editor,
We recently had the opportunity to deal with healthcare services in West Quebec and I conclude that we’re very fortunate to have the services we have, especially at the hospital in Shawville.
I’m sure that healthcare is not an easy or inexpensive thing to manifest and it’s best delivered by folks in a friendly, hometown atmosphere. My utmost praise goes out to the nurses, who are the faces and hands of healing. They have a difficult, sometimes dirty and/or dangerous job to do with long shifts. Whatever they’re getting paid, it’s not as much as they’re worth.

If we can’t persuade our penny-pinching political overseers to scrape some more money off the walls and pay the nurses an adequate wage then at least we can give a smile and a virtual tip of the hat to the next nurse you see, because she (they are mostly women) may be the person who convinces you that it’s worth it to get well.
Nurses come near the top of my list of indispensable professions, along with; farmers, firefighters, snowplow drivers and emergency plumbers. Without them, life as we know and enjoy it would not be possible.

Robert Wills,
Thorne, Que.