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Boston-Area Teaching Hospitals Seeking to Block Antitrust Lawsuit.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By Anne Barnard, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 3--Teaching hospitals in Boston and around the country are lobbying Congress to block an antitrust lawsuit that threatens to overturn the centralized system they use to assign medical students to their first job.

In the lawsuit filed last year, three medical residents charged that the program, which matches medical school graduates to hospital residency programs where they complete their training, keeps residents' working hours long and their salaries low by limiting their ability to negotiate. Hospitals counter that the National Resident Matching Program, known as "the match," benefits residents and hospitals by streamlining a potentially chaotic application process....

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