It was a noteworthy week for the more than 800 union-represented resident doctors and fellows at University at Buffalo. The group, represented by Union of American Physicians and Dentists, held a news conference Wednesday to "alert the community about UB and area...
UAPD in the News
Anesthesiologists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Embrace Unionization for Collective Voice
In a significant development, anesthesiologists employed by Beverly Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). Of the 103 physicians, a substantial majority of 78 voted in favor of this move,...
Anesthesiologists Affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Unionize
Anesthesiologists employed through Beverly Anesthesiology affiliated with Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have voted to join the Union of American Physicians and Dentists. The vote covers more than 100 anesthesiologists, according to the National Labor...
Cedars-Sinai Anesthesiologists Unionize
Anesthesiologists with Beverly Anesthesiology and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles have formed a union, part of a continued wave of physician unionization in the U.S. About 75% of the anesthesiology group's voters were in favor of joining the Union of American Physicians...
In Billboard Campaign, Physician Residents Say They’re Exploited
"Our goal is to make the general public aware," Armin Tadayyon, MD, MBA, an anesthesiology resident at UB and union member, told MedPage Today. "The general public thinks doctors are rich, but they have no idea what a resident physician is. We put it out there...
Billboards Claim UB Resident Physicians are ‘Overworked. Underpaid. Exploited.’
Dr. O'Sullivan is a resident and splits his time between Buffalo General, Oishei Children's Hospital and ECMC. He works overnights and sometimes around the clock. "I remember specifically one time I finished 24 hours in the trauma ICU at ECMC and I got the call 'hey...