tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post7788110419453724673..comments2024-03-28T01:27:23.408-04:00Comments on Health Care Renewal: Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital SystemsRoy M. Poses MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00497209843184497847noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-3726895273933458542016-01-19T11:49:58.763-05:002016-01-19T11:49:58.763-05:00Behind all hospitals are nationally organized atto...Behind all hospitals are nationally organized attorneys who know how to defeat, delay, and twist lowly physician negotiators at the bargaining table. They have been doing it for years quashing any physician embers of hope we have to bring sanity back to our healthcare system. <br /><br />The largest group of doctors in this country were private practitioners. But as in the article, they could Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-52189656922813472012016-01-19T08:35:03.448-05:002016-01-19T08:35:03.448-05:00Unionization may currently be the most effective c...Unionization may currently be the most effective counter to the madness we see today at big hospitals. Similar with pharma, where a single negotiator on prices would have leverage.afraidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-85636682046379960002016-01-18T18:30:08.432-05:002016-01-18T18:30:08.432-05:00We all know that hospitalists, by virtue of this n...We all know that hospitalists, by virtue of this name, are specialists taking care of hospitals (and not the patients who are stuck there and who serve as grist for the cash registers).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9551150.post-66199899026064818162016-01-18T10:31:31.767-05:002016-01-18T10:31:31.767-05:00Another bravo, Dr. Poses! I wish I had hope that A...Another bravo, Dr. Poses! I wish I had hope that ANY change for the better will occur but I don't...Judy Bnoreply@blogger.com