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- W2009730610 abstract "For two weeks in the autumn of 1987 there were virtually no junior doctors present in the Republic of Ireland's hospitals. As a junior doctor at the time, I took part in the strike and even had a small part in organising it. The aim of the strike was to increase overtime payments in the belief that this would decrease the amount of overtime we would be expected to work.Going on strike is not something any doctor will find easy. We want to help patients; using them as pawns runs counter to the reasons why we do medicine. There is the alarming possibility that patients may be harmed because of one's actions. Junior doctors also have the concern that going on strike may potentially damage their future careers. Thinking about strikes and money seems to change the nature of what we do from a medical vocation into an ordinary job. The change could detrimentally alter our commitment to medicine. How will the public view us afterwards? If all these concerns were realised, no doctor would strike. However, the experiences of previous medical strikes, including my own, do provide some answers.I do not believe any patients suffered seriously because of the strike. Patients would have been inconvenienced by having routine work postponed for two weeks, but substantial morbidity or mortality did not occur. The media and the government would have been on the lookout for such problems, but I do not remember any cause for concern coming to light during or after the strike. More objectively, there are published studies that reassuringly show that hospital mortality did not increase during the course of hospital doctor's strikes in Israel1 and Sweden.2 It could be argued that during a strike mortality is just pushed into the community. However, during a …" @default.
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