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Surgeons in West Virginia have gone on strike to protest the exorbitant cost of malpractice insurance. Good for them. Don't talk to me about the ethics of doctors going on strike. So long as they agree to treat emergency cases, they have as much right to strike as anybody else. The premise of a free market is that people can withhold their labor if they find the conditions under which they work intolerable...
...years, such remedies have had a tough time getting through legislatures, which are - surprise! - peopled overwhelmingly by lawyers. That is why you have never heard of a lawyers' strike. Lawyers have assured themselves pretty good working conditions. Some of my friends who graduated with me from medical school in the mid-'70s are working 50 to 60 hours a week, almost as hard as they did as interns, just to make ends meet: to pay their rent and nurses and other office expenses on the highly reduced reimbursements they get from HMOs, Medicare and Medicaid. And then a huge part...
...doctor wants to strike no more than does a textile worker. But the malpractice burden - indeed, the malpractice threat - is the final assault on the implicit contract society makes with its healers: you give up the best decade of your youth, your 20s, to treat the sick and learn your craft, and we will allow you to practice it with autonomy, dignity and the kind of security - and freedom from capricious victimization - that, oh, say, lawyers enjoy...
Critics slam the Administration for having provoked Kim with its bellicose, axis-of-evil rhetoric--"It's like yelling at a guy who's aiming a gun at you," laments a Pentagon official--and then downplaying the North Korean danger so as not to disrupt its timetable for a strike against Iraq. Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher told TIME that the Administration "seems to have almost an obsession" with Saddam. "I'm concerned that we seem to be lurching toward war without taking into account what our priorities should be." The White House insists that Iraq remains a greater...
...lethal that mere grains of it can kill. A presumed al-Qaeda terror lab had been shut down. But at least two suspects were still missing - and police feared that some of the deadly product was too. Had terrorists got away with enough of the toxin to launch a strike? While the police and MI5 launched a massive manhunt, news of the poison sent a shiver through London that could not be attributed to last week's icy weather. "This has got everybody on edge," says Sonia Merzoug, a convert to Islam who has lived near the apartment - where...