What Happened When Medical Residents Asked for Hazard Pay
At the peak of the pandemic in New York, residents at a multibillion-dollar hospital system asked for better working conditions. The ensuing debate highlighted the profession’s persistent inequities.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/what-happened-when-medical-residents-asked-for-hazard-pay
He also circulated an e-mail that one of the medical chairs had sent to his department. “Now is the time to accept the hazards of caring for the sick . . . rather than focusing on making a few extra dollars,” that e-mail read. “I am not indifferent to your anxieties but personally feel demanding hazard pay is not becoming of a compassionate and caring physician.”