Only healthy, Doctors can make sick people healthy

1500 Doctors from local hospitals have demonstrated in Munich. The trade Union Marburger Bund calls for including five percent more money and two work-free weekends in the month for the doctors. From the whole of Bavaria Doctors are not come, only from Munich, many of them were at the Odeon square. the Anna Lifted

someone Would have suffered in the early Wednesday afternoon at the Odeon square in a bout of weakness - he would have been well-cared for. Around 1500 Doctors from local hospitals have gathered to demonstrate for better payment, but especially for better working conditions. Called the warning strike, the trade Union Marburger Bund, called for the nationwide 55 000 Doctors in municipal clinics, among other things, five percent more money and two work-free weekends in the month.

The participants wear white coats and orange hats, blow on whistles around, what keeps the stuff, but have obviously thought about the health: Many wear the foam earplugs in the ears. "Under my coat I'm only human", not reading posters, "Every bus driver takes a break ... we are!" and "math for Doctors: From eight to eight eight hours". A Doctor feels is "half-Dead in White", a has observed a transformation "From a dream-Job to Job-Trauma", and a third complained of "28 days service in a month!!! Me is still a broom in the ass, then wipe', I quickly by."

Nora Lenzen, 28, and Julian Haerer, 27, are in residency at the Klinikum Memmingen. Three or four weekend services in a month are not uncommon. In General, the medicine as a professional field was no longer so attractive, finds Nora Lenzen, also because the bureaucracy, more and more increasing.

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Stefan Hitz, 33, and Nadine Anstötz, 31, works in Oncology at Klinikum Schwabing and have come with colleagues to the rally. "The Frustration is palpable," says Nadine Anstötz created in your Department in the service plans. The need to step in at short notice, feel easy-to-frequently.

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From upper Bavaria and the upper Palatinate are you came from Franconia and lower Bavaria. Some tell on demand, they lived in Munich, worked in Landsberg or Landshut. Where are they, the Doctors, living in Munich and also work? Well, says one of the participants, to get in the capital city of a body is difficult enough, the pressure at the same time, very high - because many did not trust, perhaps, rather to go on strike.

later, but still a few Munich-based physicians. Stefan Hitz, 33, and Nadine Anstötz, 31, for example, both work in the Oncology Department at the Municipal clinic in Munich-Schwabing, he as a resident, you as a specialist, the at the same time for the preparation of the service plans is responsible. If you have sometimes a bad Conscience, if you need to divide your colleagues for the third Weekend in a row? "It's a question to make the roster at all on the legs," says Nadine Anstötz, which, according to the rally to the late service. "July is not at the Moment yet." The Frustration was palpable. For short-term fill in, there had been earlier, compensatory days, says Stefan Hitz, now. To tenth coming in, also the top doctors in support of their young colleagues. The workload will make the Doctors sick, warn the speakers of the stage. And the harmful to patient care. "Only healthy, Doctors can make sick people healthy."

It was the first time in a Long Time that was focused in the negotiations on the working conditions and work relief, explained a spokesman for the Marburger Bund. Many of the Doctors have accumulated over the years, the resentment attached. An average of ten to 20 hours of Overtime per week, in the short term, revised service plans, Night readiness, in which you'll almost never have to Sleep, are just some of the points of criticism. "Especially the younger colleagues want to get out of this System."

in April had more than 1000 hospital-based physicians in Bavaria, your work is temporarily low in order to make the collective strike with the local authorities pressure. The negotiations between trade unions and employers on March 21. May in Berlin continued. The municipal clinic of Munich did not want to comment on SZ request on Wednesday to the strike. Only so much: The emergency care of patients is ensured. "If sliding operations have to be carried out at a different time, this happens in direct consultation with the patient," said a spokesman.