What is the future of unions in medicine? The region's doctors debate why unionization may or may not become more common among physicians.
That’s how Christine Meyer, an Exton internal medicine specialist, explained the typical ethos of doctors, who are forced to work grueling schedules and 80-hour workweeks while training.at Penn Medicine became the first of their kind in Pennsylvania to pursue unionizing in February.
The National Resident Matching Program, known as The Match, handles pay and hospital placement for residents. The Match isdesigned to place residents at their top-choice program. But because positions are limited and some programs are more competitive than others, the algorithm also considers how institutions ranked candidates to assign them a hospital. Not everyone gets their first choice, and there’s no negotiating reassignment after The Match.
Penn’s residents and fellows cited low pay, long hours, and cost cutting as issues a union could address. “If I’m tired and I can’t function well I can’t take care of myself, let alone my patients,” DellaVecchia said.“You have to get to that point where you’ve seen things so many times you just instinctively know that something is wrong,” said Lawrence Ward, a specialist in internal medicine and vice president for physician services at Bayhealth Medical Group in Dover, Del. “That’s only gotten by hours and hours of training and seeing so many patients.
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