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Santo Domingo.- Public Health minister Bautista Rojas warned Tuesday that if the doctors abandon the public hospitals to demand a wage increase, they’ll lose those jobs, because they’ll be fired.

"If they leave them, they’ll never return to work in any State hospital," said the official, in response to demands of the Dominican Medical Guild.

He said  the Government has enough to doctors replace those who decide to leave the hospitals. "We have doctors, and neither foreign nor military, doctors to carry out the services."

Rojas made the challenge after the CMD announced it’ll leave the hospitals in the hands of Public Health to force a negotiation in their demand for a wage hike.

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Written by: BLANCO, 29 Apr 2008 3:10 PM
From: Dominican Republic
If these doctors leave do they also leave their free houses and apartments
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Written by: Sleepyhollowguy, 29 Apr 2008 4:24 PM
From: United States
I really don't understand why they won't pay the doctors more money. It's a shame that they're wage is so low compared to people in government. I think Bautista Rojas should be fired instead.
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Written by: Belial, 30 Apr 2008 4:12 AM
From: United States, Texas
Rojas hints the doctors have a scab problem, that is, a large sector of their profession remains unorganized and opportunistic in attitude toward the union "We have doctors, and neither foreign nor military, doctors to carry out the service."

Rojas is most likely bluffing.

In reality, he probably has only the administrative, supervisory, and executive staff to rely on during a strike and few low-life and obsequious renegade doctors with reactionary bourgeois ideological tendencies.

So, in a strike, Rojas has the slime to depend on. He can slime the patients.

[Many of the the "foreign" doctors treat the Dominican bourgeoisie, the uppercrust of the middle class and work in the medical tourism sector of the profession. "Foreign?" The union was looking at the possibility of Cuban doctors while the real "foreign" doctors were US and Canadian doctors. So, a strike at public hospitals doesn't put the health of the bourgeoisie and upper middle class in any type of jeopardy.]
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Written by: Belial, 30 Apr 2008 12:55 PM
From: United States, Texas
Do Dominican public hospital doctors do evaluations? If so, then they may help.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200804...._ylt=AtZxPaovpUTzMukkOqNsyEdvzwcF

"FLORENCE, S.C. - A teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus, federal authorities said Tuesday."

"Prosecutors argued in a federal courtroom that the statements are an indication that 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger needs a psychological evaluation."

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Nowadays, with Nazarene crackpots in control of the state, the teen is exactly the kind of people who go to heaven.

I wonder how the teen planned to kill the Nazarene who is a divine being and therefore, like all divine beings, is incapable of dying; hence, the Nazarene faked his short-lived "death" 2000 years of ago.

If the teen needs a psychological evaluation, then there is a widespread need for such evaluations.
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