How will the union be structured?
RL: We would form a subsidiary medical society as the vehicle where nonmembers of the County Medical Society would be able to join the union. A lot of nonmembers who are not anxious to join the three levels of organized medicine would join a local type of group as the entree into the union. Or as I like to say it, I d rather be president of the nonmembers. It s a larger group. Unless you belong to the organizations, you can t be a union member because it s these organizations that have sponsored and financed the work to provide the union. PND: Why not go outside of the medical society entirely and form a union that requires independent dues? RL: There are physicians who are making that attempt. It s easier to do it through an organized structure. It s easier to finance the work, to make contact with the physicians. We re aware of at least one other organization outside organized medicine that s making the attempt, and I understand they do have 30 or 35 members. But they re having great
