Primary Care Doctors at Mass General Brigham Want to Unionize

MedPage Today November 18, 2024
Cheryl Clark

— Issues include workload, bureaucracy, and loss of autonomy

Several hundred primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham (MGB) notified the National Labor Relations Board on Friday that they support unionization, a move they called historic and increasingly common throughout the country.

The petition to link up with the Doctors Council, a labor union for physicians, was prompted by a growing number of factors, said Michael Barnett, MD, an MGB internist and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Through a union, the doctors hope to fight back on what they perceive as too many layers of bureaucracy that hinder physicians’ access to leadership to help solve problems, he said.

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