While staffing ratios and pay raises have been the bargaining points, the labor dispute has revealed a deeper-seated tension - the status of nurses in a doctor-dominated health care pantheon. A registered nurse and union member at a non-striking hospital sent this question to me early today:
Nurse puzzled about doctors' silence
A nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center wants to know why doctors have not spoken up for the strikers.
June 10, 2010 at 12:24PM
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