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Unionized physician residents: How might it change care?

PART OF A MOVEMENT: Some of the physician residents who organized a union at Rhode Island Hospital are all smiles after a vote to join Service Employees International Union’s Committee of Interns and Residents.
COURTESY COMMITTEE OF INTERNS AND RESIDENTS
PART OF A MOVEMENT: Some of the physician residents who organized a union at Rhode Island Hospital are all smiles after a vote to join Service Employees International Union’s Committee of Interns and Residents.
COURTESY COMMITTEE OF INTERNS AND RESIDENTS

When Dr. Ben Raymond-Kolker graduated from medical school, he had his sights set on a medical residency program at Rhode Island Hospital. But it was missing a piece he found interesting in other residency programs: a union. “I was really excited to be able to train here,” Raymond-Kolker said. “[Unionizing] was something that was on

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