WolfDogJulius

WolfDogJulius t1_j8zh2i2 wrote

Good, residents should unionize. This is not a problem unique to Penn. Nationally, residents (and fellows) are over worked and underpaid for the services they provide (not to mention their salary largely coming from Medicare and not the hospital itself). To give you a sense of things, senior residents and fellows often moon-light (pick up extra shifts), where they're paid the actual market rate for the work and it's usually about 5x the salary the hospital pays them. Large health systems (literally every one in the area) would not be able to function without their resident/fellow workforce.

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