Doctors strike.

  Junior doctors in Britain took 'industrial action' - a partial strike for twenty-four hours on Jan 12th, providing only emergency care.  On Jan 26th they will be repeating the action, but this time for forty-eight hours.  If no solution can be found they are planning more extensive action on Feb 10th.  To cut to the chase, the issues were hours of work and pay.
   Unfortunately, the industrialization of health care has left physicians with no option in cases of irresolvable disputes but industrial action.
    Here in Ontario the way the government has been treating its physician citizens is even more distasteful and completely unacceptable.  Unilateral decisions have been imposed on physicians that the government would never dare to impose on any rank of civil servant.  They would not even dare to try because they are aware government would be brought to its knees.  With doctors however, it's different.  They are well aware that physicians have always been loath to withdraw their services and count on that obligation that they have to look out for their patients.  But the administridiots have changed things, they have changed the traditional essential physician-patient relationships to an industrial relationship though they still expect physicians to eschew the basic industrial weapons that are the hallmarks of industrialization.  Physicians have a right to be outraged at the attempts by the power-brokers to render them powerless, to deprive them of binding arbitration and to attempt to  deprive them  of the right to strike, er, I mean take industrial action.
    There are only two choices, some sort of industrial action or to grin and bear what our bureaucratic masters want to dish out.
     Take your choice.