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    • Labor Relations
    • Public Policy

    Background:

    • Doctors' strikes raise complex ethical questions regarding professional obligations and patient care.
    • The ethical permissibility of medical professionals withdrawing labor requires careful consideration.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To establish a framework for ethically analyzing doctors' strikes.
    • To apply this framework to the specific case of English junior doctors' strikes.
    • To address the ethical responsibilities of employers concerning striking doctors.

    Main Methods:

    • Conceptual analysis to distinguish between professional conduct and the suspension of work.
    • Application of the ethical framework to a contemporary case study.
    • Ethical argumentation regarding employer and third-party responsibilities.

    Main Results:

    • A proposed ethical framework for evaluating doctors' strikes is presented.
    • The framework suggests that recent strikes by English junior doctors align with ethical criteria.
    • Employers have a responsibility to avoid misrepresenting or demonizing striking doctors.

    Conclusions:

    • The ethical justification of doctors' strikes can be assessed using a structured framework.
    • English junior doctors' strikes appear ethically permissible under the proposed criteria.
    • Ethical considerations must extend to the conduct of employers and institutions during industrial action.