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Strikes by Physicians in Public Hospitals in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2000

SUNIL K. PANDYA
SUNIL K. PANDYA
Affiliation:
Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital in Bombay Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre in Bombay
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Abstract

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, non nocere. And although there is some discussion in the Western literature on strikes by doctors, authorities in India are silent on the subject.

Type
Research Article
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2000 , pp. 460 - 469
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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