TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. – A Sept. 2014 resignation letter from a hospital orderly has been receiving public attention from both the news and social media, regarding the state of work in the Quebec healthcare system, since it was posted online on June 18. Danika Paquin quit her orderly job last September due to an “inhuman” amount of work that had threatened both her and her patients’ well-being, according to the letter she addressed to both the management at the Centre Hospitalier Régional de Trois-Rivières and the Government of Quebec. “My profession is destroying me,” she wrote, “as much physically and psychologically.” Paquin described her workload, which she claimed had involved serving between 12 and 16 patients fully in a shift, in great detail, along with complaints from her colleagues. Since Paquin’s mother, Diane Chamberland, posted the full letter on Facebook, it has been shared more than 5,800 times and covered by Le Journal de Montréal and Yahoo! Canada News. “I don’t seek pity; I ask for only a little empathy, listening and recognition,” Paquin wrote. “I’m trying to save my colleagues, as well as patients.”