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Previous Volume 345:1141-1144 October 11, 2001 Number 15

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Collective bargaining has caught the imagination of physicians across the United States. Although physicians' unions have existed since the 1970s, union members have always constituted an extremely small percentage of practicing physicians.¹ However, physicians are turning to unions to increase their bargaining power with managed-care organizations. They are also viewing unions as a way to help reclaim their clinical autonomy and to preserve and enhance the quality of care.²

Leading medical organizations are now supporting these efforts to reclaim clinical autonomy and increase reimbursement through collective bargaining. The American Medical Association (AMA), which opposed the idea of physicians' unions for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Faculty of Law and the Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto (S.C.); and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (T.A.B.).

Address reprint requests to Dr. Brennan at Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St., Clinics 3 PBB, Boston, MA 02115, or at tabrennan@partners.org.

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