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As an in-hospital specialist, Montreal family doctor Dominique Piper puts in nearly 80 hours a week at three institutions caring for respiratory and geriatric patients; she’s six months pregnant and also sees patients part-time in a clinic.

Onyema Onyekwelu is a family doctor who divides five days a week between two community walk-in health clinics, downtown and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, plus provides aging patients with care in their homes, and teaches medical students but come 3 p.m., she leaves work to look after for her own two toddlers.

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West Island family physician Tara McCarty, who returned from maternity leave last week to a beloved practice, always runs late because 30-minute appointments stretch until patients have exhausted their questions.

Under Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette’s plan to force doctors to see more patients or face fines, these three doctors, who delayed childbirth to get their careers going, are expecting to face fines for failing to meet the patient quota of 1,000 to 1,500.