The last few years have seen a tremendous upsurge in large scale medical and dental practices. Most of these medical and dental professional corporations are ripe for organizing. Dues paid by physicians and dentists would make the 1199 a much more powerful force to be reckoned with by the health care insurers and providers. A goal should be to get as many physicians and dentists as possible into the union. That would make 1199 stronger than it has ever been. Its time to begin organizing the top providers of health care services and then working our way down. And this union would be a much more persuasive force in dealing with the megabusinesses that the medical profession has morphed into.
I would like hearing some input from you on this matter. I have many doctors in the State of New York who, I believe, would join.
As it stands now, the salaried physicians, dentists, and nurses employed in these businesses, while making decent salaries, are fully exploited to the highest degree possible-little or no vacation time, little or no health care insurance,little or no pension funds, unsafely overworked to unacceptable stress levels at which diagnostic and treatment errors become common,and the employers' requirements to provide substandard care at the minimum level to which they can possible provide any services and still get paid.As an example, when I complained about a treatment plan, the owner of the practice said to me, "do what's best for me, not for my patients; my patients are lowlife scum."
I would appreciate hearing your opinions on this matter and would be proud to be one of the first doctors to assist in organizing physicians and dentists into this union.
Seriously, I look forward to hearing from Mr. Rivera or an assistant to Mr. Rivera with regard to this idea-it won't be easy, but as the number of salaried doctors increase, the task should get easier each day.
Many of the big treatmenr chains have union workers come in for treatment. It should be quite easy to picket and/or boycott these operations by members of the unions they treat.
very truly yours,
Joshua John Bloch DDS MS
Horseheads NY 14845
Communications: Home phone (607) 795-1998
Mobile phone (845) 721-4187
E-mail EilatUzi6@aol.com.
NOTE: I was awarded my DDS degree and my license to peactice dentistry in New York in 1964 and I was awarded the degree of MS (Substance Abuse Counseling, Treatment, and Education) in 2002. My actual interest was in the treating of addicted halth care professionals
And I was close to Mort Fischer, an early 1199 dental benefit fund director. At the time Dr. Fisher ran your dental program, he occasionally called on me to assist with a failed dental case.
The last few years have seen a tremendous upsurge in large scale medical and dental practices. Most of these medical and dental professional corporations are ripe for organizing. Dues paid by physicians and dentists would make the 1199 a much more powerful force to be reckoned with by the health care insurers and providers. A goal should be to get as many physicians and dentists as possible into the union. That would make 1199 stronger than it has ever been. Its time to begin organizing the top providers of health care services and then working our way down. And this union would be a much more persuasive force in dealing with the megabusinesses that the medical profession has morphed into.
I would like hearing some input from you on this matter. I have many doctors in the State of New York who, I believe, would join.
As it stands now, the salaried physicians, dentists, and nurses employed in these businesses, while making decent salaries, are fully exploited to the highest degree possible-little or no vacation time, little or no health care insurance,little or no pension funds, unsafely overworked to unacceptable stress levels at which diagnostic and treatment errors become common,and the employers' requirements to provide substandard care at the minimum level to which they can possible provide any services and still get paid.As an example, when I complained about a treatment plan, the owner of the practice said to me, "do what's best for me, not for my patients; my patients are lowlife scum."
I would appreciate hearing your opinions on this matter and would be proud to be one of the first doctors to assist in organizing physicians and dentists into this union.
Seriously, I look forward to hearing from Mr. Rivera or an assistant to Mr. Rivera with regard to this idea-it won't be easy, but as the number of salaried doctors increase, the task should get easier each day.
Many of the big treatmenr chains have union workers come in for treatment. It should be quite easy to picket and/or boycott these operations by members of the unions they treat.
very truly yours,
Joshua John Bloch DDS MS
Horseheads NY 14845
Communications: Home phone (607) 795-1998
Mobile phone (845) 721-4187
E-mail EilatUzi6@aol.com.
NOTE: I was awarded my DDS degree and my license to peactice dentistry in New York in 1964 and I was awarded the degree of MS (Substance Abuse Counseling, Treatment, and Education) in 2002. My actual interest was in the treating of addicted halth care professionals
And I was close to Mort Fischer, an early 1199 dental benefit fund director. At the time Dr. Fisher ran your dental program, he occasionally called on me to assist with a failed dental case.