Resident physicians and interns at three hospitals in Los Angeles County voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike Tuesday.
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"We're doctors, and people see us with white coats, so they think we make what you would think a doctor makes," Camila Alvarado, a second-year family resident at Harbor UCLA, said during a news conference earlier this month. "But in residency, if you divide by the number of hours we work, which is about 80 hours a week, we actually make about minimum wage, if not less than minimum wage.
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