The Proletarianization of the professional class

[Seeker]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4834954.stm

I remember reading a very well-written post here a while ago about how higly skilled workers, formerly members of the petty bourgeois, are begining to believe they are being used.

In the recent past, doctors could have a private buisness and do quite well for themselves.

Today apparently (at least in Germany) their industry has been consumed by the State and Corporate interests. Today they strike . . . for better pay.

Am I missing something, or is this evedence that the post I mentioned earlier had more than a little bit of truth to it?

[violencia.Proletariat]

In America, many doctors are employed by hospitals. I think some of them form buisnesses like dentists do. But overall I think more and more are being employed not self employed.

[bolshevik butcher]

In most European countries doctors are part of the national health service. Some maybe employed by private companies.

[piet11111]

doctors are tied down with bureaucratic rules and because of their already highly demanding job they have to work very hard and very long.
they also have incredibly expensive insurance (for screw-ups ofcourse) and as such they are forced to work together (groups of doctors in 1 building) and because of the insanely expensive education and incredible job pressure the numbers of doctors are dropping.
also many doctors end their carreer at an earlier age then what it used to be because they no longer are able to cope with the demands of their job.

personally i consider them as potential comrades but i think they dont think themselves as proletarians like us and that might be a problem.