Strike action at the major teaching psychiatric facility
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This article reviews the literature on strikes at psychiatric facilities and describes one such experience. The need in labor contracts to define a crisis in patient care and to protect the non-striking staff from extra-professional liability is highlighted.
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Public Health Patient Care Labor Contract Major Teaching Psychiatric Facility
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