The place of the doctor in contemporary Tanzania: A profession in a crisis

RESUMO

The year 1992 was marked by restiveness in the ranks of junior hospital doctors throughout the coutry agitating for better tools to do their job; and for more equitable conditions of service; to the point of stopping work at the Muhimbili Medical Centre on 11 September in apparent sympathy with their nursing colleagues. This lecture is a cursory survey of the author's view on the probable genesis of the crisis and an attempt to indicate the possible role that the Medical Association of Tanzania could play in its resolution