Apr 22, 2019
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians have thus far remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
"Physicians are key actors in the medical industrial complex today. They serve as conduits for profit extraction from sick and injured people."
Resident physician Michael Pappas, MD writes about how physicians must organize with their nursing colleagues to strive for better patient care, published on in-House, the online peer-reviewed publication for residents & fellows.
https://in-housestaff.org/nurses-are-leading-the-strikes-where-are-the-physicians-1455