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| Title |
Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-14-s1-s5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sylvester C Chima |
| Abstract |
Doctor and healthcare worker (HCW) strikes are a global phenomenon with the potential to negatively impact on the quality of healthcare services and the doctor-patient relationship. Strikes are a legitimate deadlock breaking mechanism employed when labour negotiations have reached an impasse during collective bargaining. Striking doctors usually have a moral dilemma between adherence to the Hippocratic tenets of the medical profession and fiduciary obligation to patients. In such circumstances the ethical principles of respect for autonomy, justice and beneficence all come into conflict, whereby doctors struggle with their role as ordinary employees who are rightfully entitled to a just wage for just work versus their moral obligations to patients and society. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 27 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 5 | 19% |
| Yemen | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |
| Kenya | 1 | 4% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 18 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 81% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 11% |
| Scientists | 2 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 120 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 119 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 13% |
| Researcher | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 21 | 18% |
| Unknown | 33 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 40 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 September 2022.
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#834,059
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#48
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#8,639
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#2
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