I don't usually take issue with the Gazette's Our View, but a penultimate comment about Dr. Raj Sherman's purely selfless motives being in question (March 5 Gazette) deserves a rebuttal.
In fact, Dr. Sherman's actions (outside the legislature they’d be a violation of libel laws) are as close to being selfless as one can get without shutting up and dying.
If he had a selfish interest in improving health care (a rational self-interest), then he would be advocating the abolition of socialized medicine. The medical professionals are just as much traders as plumbers, pipefitters, grocers and computer geeks. They don't need government interference, and are screwed because of it.
Don't question Dr. Sherman's selflessness. He deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Eric Joly, St. Albert
