I found an article from 1986, which references some doctor strikes. The author makes a good point about having public sympathy on one's side if a strike is to be successful.
This is where our organizations such as the AMA have dropped the ball in my naive opinion. How can the lay public know about the PCP's plight when 90% of all Americans still think that Influenza is synonoymous with gastroenteritis. I gave up a long time ago on that one and just go with it. Even today, my patients keep calling me with enteritis symptoms thinking they having N1H1. Not to even mention that any temp over 99 is a fever and every day with a fever is one day closer to death.
Maybe this is not a good analogy, but I have little sympathy with baseball players when they strike, because they only make $5,000,000 per year. And, I swear I will never watch them again. But, guess what? They get what they want whether society likes them or not, and I keep watching the Red Sox and baseball revenues continue to go through the roof.
I already feel as though 20% of my patients don't respect me, so I think I would rather have all of them disrespect me and have less paperwork and more reimbursement. The article can be downloaded below:
http://www.box.net/shared/static/1skrrfbpm1.pdfPS Leslie, I sincerely apologize to being part of getting you started, lol.
