In mid-March 2006, physicians at Germany's university clinicswent on strike, protesting an increase in the hours of the officialworkweek that came without a corresponding increase in pay.The physicians' union, the Marburger Bund, argued that neitherthe old official workweek of 38.5 hours, nor the new one of40 or 42 hours, reflected the reality known by most doctorsin Germany, where 80-hour weeks are common and physicians oftenput in many additional, uncompensated hours. About 15,000 ofthe 20,000 physicians based at university hospitals joined inthis unprecedented strike.
Dr. Nowak is the director of the Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University and a deputy for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Technical University — both in Munich, Germany.
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