Becker's Healthcare May 23, 2023
A strike of more than 150 resident physicians is highlighting an issue that can no longer be ignored in medicine: wage disparity, Kevin Pho, MD, an internal medicine physician and founder of KevinMD, wrote on the website May 22.
New York City-based Elmhurst Hospital is at the center of the wage debate, but the issues physicians are protesting there are not unique to that system. There is a larger problem of fairness, equity and respect within the profession, Dr. Pho wrote.
“At the core of this unrest lies the glaring wage gap between residents employed under the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai working at Elmhurst and those stationed at Mount Sinai’s main campus,” Dr. Pho wrote. “This striking...
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