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Hugh H. Hussey, MD

JAMA. 1976;235(7):756.

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Although not the first of its kind, the dispute of Cook County Hospital house officers, ending as it did in a strike during the latter part of 1975, seems to have drawn more attention nationally than previous similar actions by house staff members in other cities, eg, New York and Washington. Certainly, the Cook County dispute and its repercussions were issues brought forcefully to the attention of the American Medical Association House of Delegates at the 1975 Clinical Convention in Honolulu. A resolution emanating from the Interns and Residents business session called on the AMA to undertake several forms of direct intervention in connection with the house staff strike. Although that resolution was rejected by the House of Delegates principally on the grounds that the house staff-hospital disagreements were matters for state and local, as opposed to national, consideration, the House did affirm that interns and residents, being employees as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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