Growing up in 60's-70's America my general experience with unions wasn't all the good. It was a time of massive corruption and rightward drift. Later, during the Reagan years, they would be more or less emasculated. My experience in Europe is rather different and I find them in general to be a force for good.
However they still have their problems. (WARNING TO MEN: you may want to stop reading this story now. Trust me.) The Doctor's union in Romania is protesting a £100,000 damage award that a surgeon will have to pay after losing his temper during an operation and cutting off the patient's genitalia. According to Vasile Astarastoae of the Romanian Doctors Union:
However they still have their problems. (WARNING TO MEN: you may want to stop reading this story now. Trust me.) The Doctor's union in Romania is protesting a £100,000 damage award that a surgeon will have to pay after losing his temper during an operation and cutting off the patient's genitalia. According to Vasile Astarastoae of the Romanian Doctors Union:
"Ciomu's case is a dangerous precedent for all Romanian doctors. In future doctors may have to think very carefully about what work they undertake."
Let’s face it. Thinking and surgery just don't mix.
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