Community service doctors ‘slaves to the State’ – court challenge

Slaves of the state - medical internship and community service in South Africa.

Owing to a chronic shortage of medical staff in South Africa, sleep-deprived medical interns and community service doctors work up to 200 hours of overtime per month under the state's commuted overtime policy. Nurses moonlight in circumvention of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. For trainee doctors, overtime over 80 hours is unpaid, and rendered involuntarily under threat of not qualifyi...

Doctors promise protests along with court challenge to refugee health cuts.

Surely nurses are right to challenge doctors.

I and some of my fellow students were astonished at the letter about the consequences of not following a consultant's instructions (letters June 4).

David Oliver: NHS doctors' licence to challenge.

Imagine that you’re a head teacher at a state school. You have a professional obligation to give children the best education you can with the resources you have. They have no second chance. Whatever you may think about workforce gaps, dilapidated buildings, curriculum changes, class sizes, testing, and inspection, you strive to deliver maximum value to the students. You are on the public payrol...

Violence against women--a challenge to the Supreme Court.