NYTimes.com - Medical Students Sue Over Residency System

Every March, graduating medical school students wait anxiously for Match Day, when a computer tells them where they will spend the next several years as medical residents in teaching hospitals. A class-action lawsuit to be filed in Washington on May 7, 2002 challenges the matching program on antitrust grounds. The suit says the defendants, including seven medical organizations and more than 1,000 private hospitals, have used the program to keep residents' wages low and hours long.