We oppose the deskilling of the medical profession as we do the deskilling of the RN and other care provider positions. This is not the case in some other unions and professional associations. Employers may attempt to buy off and placate those organizations leadership by throwing more dues paying members their way in exchange for their silence. Ultimately, it is the patient that suffers and that is each of us at some time in life. Understand the Social Context of the Environment and Have Your Organization Enter the Debate on Health Care.
Massive changes are underway in healthcare.
They are being driven by consultants who misconstrue the Hippocratic oath into the Hypocritic oath. They justify the billions of dollars paid to them each year by healthcare executives by devising restructuring schemes at the corporate, clinical and technological levels in healthcare. Healthcare professionals have been forced to adapt to these structural changes designed by consultants and the results have been chilling for the patients. In place of public health we have monopolies. At the clinical level we have deprofessionalization and rationed services.