About 40percentt of orthopedic surgeons refused to mark the site of an operation, Dr. O'Leary said.
(Editing by Greg McCune).
The convener of a teachers' union, the delightfully named Joseph Stalin, says teachers are refusing to mark exam papers.
He refuses to mark work on the Holocaust, arguing it would be inappropriate, and instead encourages pupils to create a personal response to their encounter with evil and suffering.
When lecturers were refusing to mark coursework or set exams, the university agreed to award degrees based on work already submitted, rather than wait for a student's full marks.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU), created from the merger of the Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe last week, are still refusing to mark and some lecturers are not setting exams.
The Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer, meanwhile, refuses to mark his territory; having issued potent accounts of Mahler's Second and Sixth Symphonies with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, he told one interviewer that he has no plans to finish the journey on record.
At once credulous and coy, "Northfork" refuses to mark the boundary between dream and reality, conjuring a seamless world in which every mundane detail carries an aura of hushed enchantment.
Why bother with messy strikes - with all that inconvenient loss of pay, and cold mornings stood on picket lines - when all you have to do is to refuse to mark essays and by so doing inflict maximum pain for minimum loss?
He says banks are fooling themselves by refusing to mark busted assets down.
