Evidencias Medicas : Medical residents just slaves like Chinese workersMedicina General y Familiar

UF Family Medicine Residency Graduation 2009 (Photo credit: arne h)

Medical residents have fewer labor protections than Chinese factory workers. While labor abuses at Apple’s factories make headlines, few people are as concerned about the lack of protections for doctors and medical students here in the United States. As a resident, I was subject to some of the worst abuses – intentionally misreported time sheets and gender-based discrimination – and after I complained, I was fired, so I sued the hospital and won. Through this experience, I learned that there are very few laws protecting medical residents, and that for all of the regulation pertaining to healthcare itself, there is little effort to protect the medical workers themselves. If medical reform is going to happen now, then there needs to be reform for medical education as well and laws to protect medical residents.

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