David Shoham, who has started his task as neutral arbitrator in the doctors’ pay dispute has issued a temporary recommendation that the government pay immediately advances of salary in anticipation of his final award. He has proposed that junior interns be granted an advance of about $800, medium-rank residents $1,200 and senior physicians an advance of $1,500 dollars on which income tax will have to be paid.
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