TY - JOUR T1 - Physicians' strikes--a rejoinder. JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 196 LP - 197 DO - 10.1136/jme.11.4.196 VL - 11 IS - 4 AU - S M Glick Y1 - 1985/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/11/4/196.abstract N2 - 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. ER -