Union resident doctors at Jamaica Hospital and Flushing Hospital have voted to authorize a strike, the Daily News has learned — potentially bringing the city’s health care industry another work stoppage after a nurses strike in January.

“We don’t want to go on strike,” said Dr. Neha Ravi, a first-year family medicine resident at Jamaica Hospital. “As doctors we don’t go to med school to get involved in striking or even contract negotiations; really we want to focus on medicine, that’s our passion and that’s what we’re here to do. We feel like we have no choice but the way that negotiations are going.”

No date for any work stoppage has been set.

“Jamaica and Flushing hospitals have not received a 10-day strike notice from [the Committee of Interns and Residents]. Negotiations are ongoing,” said Michael Hinck, a spokesman for MediSys.

Doctors at the two Queens hospitals, both operated by the MediSys Health Network, are unionized under the Committee of Interns and Residents. The strike authorization vote was approved by 93% of the union resident doctors, with around 79% of eligible union members voting. The final tally was released Wednesday.

The doctors are seeking a contract with higher wages and limits on patient loads and work duties outside their usual responsibilities. They also say MediSys has bargained in bad faith and ignored issues they’ve brought to the bargaining table. If those practices stop, they say, the strike will be averted.

The union has filed seven unfair labor practices charges against MediSys with the National Labor Relations Board. The charges include canceling and refusing to schedule bargaining, and blocking employees from posting union literature.

Ravi told The News that residents often handle upward of 40 patients at a time and perform “out-of-title” duties like drawing blood, which makes them even more strapped for time.

“That’s not the type of care that we as residents would like to provide,” Ravi said. “ ... And there are days when we’re not just taking care of patients. We’re also doing work like setting up IVs or blood draws, and these are not typically jobs that doctors do. These are jobs that can be done by other health care professionals. But when we have to do those things, it does take away time that we could otherwise spend taking care of patients.”

If they strike, it would be the first time New York City doctors went on strike since 1990, when resident physicians at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital went on a nine-day walkout.

The salary for resident doctors starts at $67,000 a year — but when divided over frequent 80-hour workweeks, the pay breaks down to just about $15 an hour.

“We are time-poor and cash-poor, which makes it extremely, extremely difficult when trying to have a family, and most of us are in our late 20s, early 30s, have kids, so it’s not easy. It’s really, really challenging,” Ravi said.

The doctors say that their working conditions and pay are especially important post-COVID, with burnout rampant among doctors and nurses.

“We know how many physicians are leaving the workforce right now because of what has been going on. And so supporting physicians in this time is extremely important,” Ravi said.

This strike authorization comes just three months after more than 7,000 nurses at two New York City hospitals went on a three-day strike. And in November, more than 1,000 residents and interns at the Bronx’s Montefiore Medical Center unionized.