Progressive Doctors

Grassroots doctors and med students going beyond the exam room to organize for our patients' health. Discussion, community, and action via fb group, DM to join.

[Progressive Doctors @progressiveMDs]

@NYCHealthSystem @DrKatzNYCHH @AOC @deborah_a_brown @ButlerAtiy25142 AOC will you meet with health workers concerned about H+H’s direction cutting time with patients, not fixing understaffing, causing long delays in getting needed care, worsening worker burnout? @DoctorsCouncil

[Crain's New York @CrainsNewYork]

City doctors plan strike amid stalled negotiations to improve pay, benefits https://t.co/eTKIg9F5jF

[amNewYork™ @amNewYork]

Hundreds of NYC Health + Hospitals doctors ready to strike Jan. 13 https://t.co/HfOnSHRGZs

[Nilpoj @Nilpoj1]

Unionized docs at NYC H+H affiliates to strike mid-January if demands for new contract are not met https://t.co/TVTMjeemZQ

[Doctors Council SEIU @DoctorsCouncil]

“Dr. Gray Ballinger, a primary care doctor at Queens Hospital Center, said the idea of striking gained momentum among her colleagues in recent weeks after the hospital implemented a new policy that cut the time allotted for new patient visits in half.”

[Jasmeet @jas_sand]

HCW in public hospitals are struggling. Many are working overtime to ensure patients are receiving adequate care. We need more physicians!

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

City Hall can intervene here and prevent what would be the biggest strike of doctors in the city's history. @DoctorsCouncil

[Eyewitness News @ABC7NY]

Doctors threaten to strike at 4 New York City hospitals over staffing shortage, conduct, union says https://t.co/z0miiB4tfo

[Gothamist @Gothamist]

Although the doctors’ salaries are funded by the city, they are directly employed by private affiliates of NYC Health and Hospitals.

That means they are not subject to the city’s Taylor Law, which prohibits public employees from going on strike: https://t.co/QHp2vfUXIJ

[SEIU @SEIU]

BIG NEWS: Nearly 1,000 NYC doctors (across 4 major hospitals) united in Doctors Council-SEIU will go ON STRIKE in 10 days if employers don't meet them at the table. Chronic understaffing and burnout are putting Docs and their patients at risk. ENOUGH.

FAIR CONTRACT NOW!

[Dr. Jennifer Lincoln | OBGYN @DrJenLincoln]

After 1 year of bargaining with Providence execs and NO meaningful progress, today we announced we are striking on January 10th.

At my hospital this includes the IM, Med-Peds, Palliative care, & OB hospitalists, and the Prov-employed OBGYNs, midwives, and ALL the nurses. /1

[Andrew Goldstein @andrewmakebluesky.bsky.social @AndrewMakeTweet]

So proud of my fellow @DoctorsCouncil union members fighting back and voting to authorize a strike when H+H and its subcontractors are offering contracts that are unfair to them and unsafe for patients!

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I will also use this opportunity to express that I am horrified at the silence of international and U.S. medical organizations on Gaza. This is completely unacceptable and I will never forget, nor forgive.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I will no longer be intimidated by my fellow physicians who have tried to silence me by trying to intimidate me and threaten my livelihood. I will find a way to pay my bills, care for my children, and continue the health equity work that is in alignment with my values.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I’m willing to stand in my truth and in alignment with my moral compass. My mother, the late Dr. Dale Blackstock, would be horrified if she were still alive and like me call for not only a ceasefire but an arms embargo NOW.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

My sister’s post today has given me courage to speak up.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has given me courage.
The Palestinian people have given more courage.
The gruesome images I have born witness to every day have forever changed me.

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

I’ve been scared to speak up more about Gaza. I feel unburdened to share I’ve been targeted & disparaged, as a Black woman physician, by nefarious forces within medicine, because of my pro-humanity stance, but NO MORE. I CANNOT be more scared than Palestinians in this moment.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Doctors still use pagers. Four healthcare workers were killed in these terrorist attacks in Lebanon by Israel.

[Progressive Doctors @progressiveMDs]

Many OBGYNs aren’t for fear of legal consequences or employer consequences caused by the legal terrain, so really you seem to be the “lying piece of shit.”

[Greg J. Marchand MD @MarchandSurgery]

I'm an OBGYN
She's just a lying piece of sh!t.
There are no states where a woman must be on death's door.
In all 50 states an OBGYN can terminate a pregnancy whenever THEY deem a woman's health is in danger.
This is just a lie.