Free Capitalist Network - Community Archive
Mises Community Archive
An online community for fans of Austrian economics and libertarianism, featuring forums, user blogs, and more.

Hospitals Will Never Fire Doctors For Refusing Flu Shots

rated by 0 users
This post has 4 Replies | 1 Follower

Top 50 Contributor
Posts 2,028
Points 51,580
limitgov Posted: Sun, Jan 13 2013 10:34 PM

only nurses.

  • | Post Points: 35
Top 200 Contributor
Male
Posts 443
Points 9,245

Makes sense if you consider nurses tend to be the ones administering the shots. Though I'd agree that anybody working among sick people should not be allowed to do so if they refuse shots. At that point it just becomes neglegent and perhaps dangerous.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
  • | Post Points: 20
Top 500 Contributor
Posts 275
Points 4,000
HabbaBabba replied on Mon, Jan 14 2013 12:02 AM

How so?

  • | Post Points: 20
Top 10 Contributor
Male
Posts 4,987
Points 89,490
Wheylous replied on Mon, Jan 14 2013 9:24 AM

From what I understand most nurses refuse to take them voluntarily.

  • | Post Points: 5
Top 50 Contributor
Male
Posts 1,687
Points 22,990
Bogart replied on Mon, Jan 14 2013 1:56 PM

The reason: Medical Licensing.  The licence for a doctor is much more valuable than that of a nurse.  So a hospital can replace a nurse much easier than a doctor.  Also the labor agreements between nurses and doctors tend to be different where the nurses work directly for the hospital while doctors tend to be under a contract.

  • | Post Points: 5
Page 1 of 1 (5 items) | RSS