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Sam1

(498 posts) Tue Jan 19, 2016, 11:48 AM Jan 2016

Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargainin

Found this over at the blog Health Care Renewal:

We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician. In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed countries, physicians increasingly practice as employees of large organizations, usually hospitals and hospital systems, sometimes for-profit. The leaders of such systems meanwhile are now often generic managers, people trained as managers without specific training or experience in medicine or health care, and "managerialists" who apply generic management theory and dogma to medicine and health care just as it might be applied to building widgets or selling soap.

http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/01/not-going-to-take-it-anymore-doctors-in.html

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Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargainin (Original Post) Sam1 Jan 2016 OP

Awesome. SamKnause Jan 2016 #1

Add this to the very real and present dangers of organized religion using a back door AuntPatsy Jan 2016 #2

Excellent! Rider3 Jan 2016 #3

A natural constituency for Single Payer Health Care. eom kristopher Jan 2016 #4

My San Diego doctor was complaing about this hyper control last check up stuffmatters Jan 2016 #5

SamKnause

(13,110 posts)

1. Awesome.

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 11:54 AM

Jan 2016

Thanks for posting.

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)

2. Add this to the very real and present dangers of organized religion using a back door

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 11:59 AM

Jan 2016

in order to gain easier access to control the masses..

http://safeandsecular.org/hospital-ownership/

Rider3

(919 posts)

3. Excellent!

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 12:11 PM

Jan 2016

I hope the rest of the country does this.

kristopher

(29,798 posts)

4. A natural constituency for Single Payer Health Care. eom

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 04:27 PM

Jan 2016

stuffmatters

(2,574 posts)

5. My San Diego doctor was complaing about this hyper control last check up

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Tue Jan 19, 2016, 09:05 PM

Jan 2016

We have completely opposite politics...but we definitely found common ground on his frustrations with the growing control of corporations over their physicians, including him. I mentioned to him, thinking for his politics the word "union" was probably too scary, that maybe the doctors could start a Guild, like my brother's been in the Directors Guild, and many happy friends in the Writers Guild and SAG for decades.

Really good these doctors in other corporate systems are getting organized and starting to fight back. I'll take the info to him at my soon annual check up. Glad doctors, who are more intelligent than the average person, are finally wising up to the basic tool of collective bargaining and their power as highly skilled, essential employees. Funny the nurses right beside them knew to do it generations ago,

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