November 2, 2006

DMC, WSU fight over doctors' pay

The Detroit Medical Center and the Wayne State University School of Medicine will continue negotiations this afternoon regarding a contract dispute over how doctors are compensated for duties they perform at the DMC and whether they should be allowed to participate in business ventures that might compete with DMC interests. Each side says it is committed to negotiating a contract before the current one expires at the end of the year. But the Accreditatiion Council for Graduate Medical Education has said that it expects the DMC and WSU to reach an agreement by Nov. 14. If the two sides don't reach agreement by then, the accreditation body could end the graduate medical program, which would cost the two organizations 900 medical residents and many of the 700 physicians who train them, the article says.

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