Not at all. What I would suggest is improving pay—but even more than that, working conditions—until family medicine work is not such a shitty proposition that medical students don’t even want to go through the residency process to train for it.

Why would you want to beat down someone else instead of demanding that everyone gets risen up?

Becoming a family doctor in Canada is a minimum 9-year (usually more) postsecondary education. That’s life they’re not getting back. And taxpayer-subsidized though it may be, most family doctors start their careers with six-figure student debt to pay off.

Being a family doctor is emotionally demanding, important to society, and increasingly complex. People can, and do, choose to make more money for less effort in other fields. It’s no longer a promising career path for intelligent young people, which is leading to a shortage of people doing work we all depend on.

So OK, maybe you have no sympathy for them. But don’t be surprised next time you need medical help and there’s nobody there to help you.