May 17, 2002
Antitrust Suit Attacks Rules on Placing Medical Residents
The system that matches medical-school graduates with the residency programs that train them as physicians violates antitrust laws and artificially suppresses wages, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Washington.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 200,000 plaintiffs who have been medical residents since 1998, names seven medical groups that are involved in the match process and more than 1,000 teaching hospitals. It argues that the National
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