Support for Surgeon's Strike

Fed up with the high cost of malpractice insurance, a

    number of American surgeons actually went on strike last week.

              I sympathize with their strike. Surgeons have as much right

    to be fed up with working conditions as teachers, air traffic controllers,

    police officers, fire-fighters , garbage collectors.

             The long range solution for their problem is literally to go

    out of BUSINESS !  A national health care plan will make outrageous

    malpractice suits a  nightmare of the pass.  Health care will be

    recognized as a universal right. But since doctors are only human, the

    more rational health care system will simply  deal humanely with their

    tragic mistakes. Is it right to rob a whole hospital of millions of

    dollars  to compensate a few unfortunate victims of malpractice ?

                 Poor cancer patients will be completely neglected

    because a rich lady's  cosmetic surgery left her hideous ?

               Doctors must again see themselves as PROFESSIONALS -not

    business partners in the health industry.

             Where have you gone Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Marcus Welby ?