PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - S M Glick TI - Physicians' strikes--a rejoinder. AID - 10.1136/jme.11.4.196 DP - 1985 Dec 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 196--197 VI - 11 IP - 4 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/11/4/196.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/11/4/196.full SO - J Med Ethics1985 Dec 01; 11 AB - The author, a physician, rejects a previous defence of a doctors' strike. There is little justification for strikes in general, still less for doctors' strikes, he claims. Should not doctors rather 'stand above the common herd' and set an example, he asks. Furthermore the whole idea of strikes in which a third and innocent party is deliberately punished in order to apply pressure on someone else is a 'a bizarre ethic indeed' and not to his knowledge justified under any ethical theory.