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Meeting the challenges of modern medicine will require more than seeing patients.

Building a single-payer system is hard, but not impossible. Just ask Saskatchewan.

In certain medical fields, large majorities of physicians tend to share the political leanings of their colleagues, and a study suggests ideology could affect some treatment recommendations.

They're peacefully resisting US-style neoliberal measures intended to crush the unions-a backbone of Mexico's social-justice movements. Taking union leaders hostage, murdering unarmed teachers and students, firing thousands, and closing one of Mexico's most progressive institutions are serious violations of human and labor rights, and of the rule of law itself. Now, 200,000 doctors to join teachers in Mexico national strike.

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It's not unheard of for surgery residents to work for more than a day and a half straight.