"The Worldwide Epidemics of Doctors' and Nurses' Strikes"

[Evan Madianos]

"The Worldwide Epidemics of Doctors' and Nurses' Strikes"

by Robert W. Tracinski

"The outbreak of doctors' and nurses' strikes in America is spreading.....These strikes, so unusual in the United States, are an early symptom of the spread to this country of a worldwide epidemic.

Doctors' and nurses strikes have become a commonplace occurrence outside the United States.....

Yet there is something shocking and dangerous in the idea of a doctors' or nurses' strike.

In the industrialized world, we are blithely accustomed to the fact that when an emergency strikes, when we fall seriously ill, or even when we suffer from minor aches and pains, a doctor or nurse will be there to diagnose the problem and solve it. We take our doctors and nurses -- and the instant availability of their life-saving knowledge and skills -- for granted.

If there is a worldwide scourge that is prompting these people to walk off the job, it is crucially important to discover the cause.

A physician or nurse investigating the cause of a disease would begin by looking for a common element, a risk factor that is present in all cases....."

Full article:

http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2487

[LydiaGreen]

I'm sorry, I fail to see where the article mentions "nurses"...

The title of the article is "The Worldwide Epidemics' of Doctors' Strikes." No mention of nurses at all. Which is a shame... the same could certainly be said for the issues facing nurses today... but, it isn't.