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This includes doctors, nurses, pharmacists, phlebotomists, clinical staff, laboratory technicians, and community health workers across the nation especially at the state and local levels.

As a teenager, I watched my mother, a talented phlebotomist, be robbed of promotions at Johns Hopkins Hospital where she worked for 20 years.

You wake up and skip breakfast — not even coffee — and sit blearily in the exam room, looking at the ceiling as the phlebotomist slides a needle into your vein.

The Kaiser workers on strike include licensed vocational nurses, X-ray technicians, surgical technicians, phlebotomists, certified nursing assistants, pharmacy technicians and respiratory therapists, as well as support staff such as housekeepers and food service workers.

There are a lot of them, including medical assistants, licensed vocational nurses, surgical technicians, certified nursing assistants, phlebotomists, pharmacy technicians, respiratory therapists, X-ray technicians and ultrasound sonographers.