http://www.medrants.com/archives/4900 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/4900/comment-page-1#comment-529312 oskie94 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:09:34 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4900#comment-529312 It is self-evident that academic physicians, who are hospital or medical school *EMPLOYEES*, use house-staff (who do not have due process rights or collective bargaining powers and are not technically nor legally considered employees) as "RVU multipliers" in the service of large health care corporations. I can think of no other sector in our economy that utilizes human capital this way. It is self-evident that academic physicians, who are hospital or medical school *EMPLOYEES*, use house-staff (who do not have due process rights or collective bargaining powers and are not technically nor legally considered employees) as “RVU multipliers” in the service of large health care corporations. I can think of no other sector in our economy that utilizes human capital this way.

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