title: Socioeconomic activism in a changing medical workplace.
abstract: The House of Medicine has been disadvantaged by not being at the table, by believing that society will take care of us, and by believing that economics are not critically important to the practice of medicine. All of these assumptions are incorrect. We must be at the table the next time around and we must be prepared for the crisis of access that will bring about societies' dealings with these important issues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. jfische1@caregroup.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Josef E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010819:Physician's Role; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States