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There's also actors and athletes.
by jonny_eh 8y ago
There's also actors and athletes.
- pmiller2 8y agoDoctors aren’t unionized anywhere I know of. Do you have an example of a doctors’ union?
- glup 8y agoA doctor friend was telling me the other day that he doesn't know of an instance, in contrast to the nurses' unions.
- anon1385 8y agoThe UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association Here's them going on strike the other year: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announces-further-strikes-junior-doctors-contract-dispute https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announce...
- jonchang 8y agoThis made national news a while ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize... (written before their contract was ratified)
- lovich 8y agoThey have a professional association which performs some of the same responsibilities as a union, but its not 1:1
- detaro 8y agoMany employed doctors are in a union in Germany.
- riffic 8y agomedical practices seem to classify hired physicians as contractors, not employees
- lotsofpulp 8y agoControlling supply is the important piece, not being in a union. Once you limit the supply and limit your competition, you don't need a "union". They make up the leadership of the organizations that setup funding for the residency positions, which control how many doctors can be trained every year, effectively controlling the supply of doctors. No one, other than doctors, is incentivized to keep this supply constrained, which I assume is due to lobbying by doctors. >Medicare-supported training slots are frozen where they existed almost two decades ago, perpetuating inequities in the geographic distribution of training slots and ignoring changes in the geography and demography of the U.S. population https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK248024/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK248024/ https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html http://www.nrmp.org/board-of-directors/ http://www.nrmp.org/board-of-directors/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Pro...
- pmiller2 8y agoThe AMA is not a union. Unions don’t restrict the supply of labor. They just help workers collectively negotiate for pay and conditions. Anyone can join a union, even at a “union shop” by getting hired at a place that is unionized. I was a UFCW member in college. Eligibility was automatic after I got hired.
- joeyo 8y agoResidents, interns and fellows are unionized in some states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Interns_%26_Residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Interns_%26_Resid...
- gamblor956 8y agoDoctors that work for the VA are unionized...as are generally doctors that work for the CA state prison and mental hospital systems.
- gnud 8y agoSweden - https://slf.se/om-oss/ https://slf.se/om-oss/ Denmark - https://www.laeger.dk/english https://www.laeger.dk/english Norway - http://legeforeningen.no/english/ http://legeforeningen.no/english/