Jewish General doctor quits
The Gazette is headlining the resignation of a Jewish General surgeon over alleged antisemitism. He’s going to that heartland of tolerance, the United States.
They also namecheck Gad Saad, who apparently made a similar announcement recently. This would be the Gad Saad who called Quebec French an affront to human dignity, right? Which the Gazette seems conveniently to have forgotten. Bon débarras, Saad lad.
Here’s a blog thread about Saad around that time.
Taylor C. Noakes 11:54 on 2026-06-02 Permalink
The big red flag here is that the individual in question refused to make any on record statement explaining his motivations.
If I pitched an article that was “person X is doing Y because of Z”, and I couldn’t get person X to explain Z, I wouldn’t have a story and it wouldn’t get published.
And for good reason: there’s no story. There’s literally nothing to report.
With all due respect to Aaron Derfel, this isn’t news. It’s ragebait.
There’s nothing of substance here (as noted by the almost immediate pivot to discussing Gad Saad, noted pusher of the idea empathy is bad – among other embarassments)
Also, as Kate rightly pointed out, leaving Montreal for the famously tolerant American South, and more specifically a state that had the Confederate Battle Flag on its state flag until what, 20-30 years ago?
Georgia still has active KKK chapters FFS.
There’ve been numerous antisemitic incidents there recently, many of which appear to be far more violent than naything that’s happened in Montreal.
I can think of a far more likely reason why any Canadian physician would move to Atlanta – or anywhere else in the US – right now. Our governments are bending over backwards to undermine public healthcare, and down there a physician can be a millionaire.
Why beat your head against the wall in a public system being undermined from within, where you get shit pay and patient outcomes aren’t what they should be – even at an exceptional hospital like the JGH – when you can get paid properly, expect better patient outcomes (for those with insurance), and get afford to live in a gated community with its own private school?
He’s a highly trained professional at the top of his game and he’s doing what’s best for his family, but I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with antisemitism.