Strikes by Physicians in Public Hospitals in India

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (4):460-469 (2000)
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Can strikes by resident doctors training to become consultants in Indian public-sector teaching hospitals be ethical? These hospitals were established for the medical care of the very poor in a country where health insurance and a national health service are nonexistent. In such a situation, the paralysis of tertiary healthcare centers by striking doctors runs contrary to the raison d'être of the profession. It also violates the first dictum of medicine: Primum,nonnocere. And although there is some discussion in the Western literature on strikes by doctors, authorities in India are silent on the subject

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