About 150 resident physicians went on strike at 7 a.m. Monday, accusing the hospital of treating them differently than their peers, even though they do the same job.
“That just shows how unfair it is. In 30 years, there has not been a physician strike. This is the first one. That says something,” said Youssef Abdel-Gawad, a second year psychiatry resident.
While the doctors work at Elmhurst, they are employed by Mount Sinai, which residents claim pays them $7,000 less each year compared to their counterparts at the hospital’s main campus in Manhattan.
Union leaders say the disparity is hurtful.
“For doing the same work, for seeing the same patients, for working at the same two hospitals, for working alongside the same attendings.
Why not Elmhurst? Why is there a difference? These are hard questions that we’ve been asking Mount Sinai for answers and we haven’t really gotten them,” second year psychiatry resident Irfa Khan said.
Residents say the negotiations started last July, and the hospital’s pushback is shocking considering the sacrifices they made to protect the community during COVID, when Elmhurst resembled ground zero.
“We are serving a very unique population, a very special population, a very diverse population, and a population that has little access to health care,” said second year internal medicine resident Joya Dupre.
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