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I keep trying to write something about the doctors' strike and stop in the middle because I just cannot contain my rage long enough. I try my best to give the best version of the other side's argument and here I just cannot do it because it's so fucking delusional.
They are taking patients' lives as hostage during the pandemic. Several people died because the emergency rooms turned them away. All this, just to protest the govt's plan to raise a few more doctors so that people in the rural area don't have to drive an hour to the hospital.
The govt even offered to suspend the proposal until after the pandemic and re-discuss later. That's basically a surrender. And the doctors are STILL striking because they want a written statement saying govt will NEVER increase the number of doctors. It's insane.
What's worse is their towering arrogance and casual racism. Just look at this shit - this is KMA's official material. It's asking: "Which doctor would you trust your life with? A doctor who studied hard and graduated top of his class, or a public school graduate with bad grades?" https://twitter.com/roricon/status/1300958975626678272
This is also KMA's official material. When a dissenting doctor anonymously voiced his opinion to stop the strike, the KMA accused that he was a Chinese spy (seriously) because he used some vocab they never heard of. Again, this is the OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE KMA. https://twitter.com/kmasns/status/1300413567313694721
Why? How? How in the world can a single occupation have such a concentration of sociopaths? I just can't write anything about their demands without going into a long stream of curse words.
Oh don't even fucking get me started on this shit. Even before the strike, there was such a shortage of doctors that nurse practitioners are stretched to the max. Lots of hospitals got in trouble because they had NPs do surgery. Seriously, they did. https://twitter.com/ot7_and_sprite/status/1300989570763218945
Oh yeah, this was a real argument that the KMA made: "Korea doesn't have a shortage of doctors - we lead the world in doctors' density!" THIS ISN'T STARCRAFT 2 DUMBASS YOU DON'T GET HEALED JUST BY STANDING NEXT TO A DOCTOR https://twitter.com/yunginchae/status/1300989850758180864
I tweeted this out five days ago but honestly it's still blowing my mind. Hospitals are paying TWO AND A HALF TIMES the salary to live in a perfectly nice city but the doctors are not going there because it's not Seoul. The whole thing is classism run amok. https://twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1298985150433304576
I just read a story about a hospital in Jeju - the tropical island paradise! - that offered $600k for a doctor. One doctor accepted the offer, quit after one year, and the spot is still empty. Triple salary to practice on a resort island the doctors still won't go.
This whole shit is happening because Korean doctors don't want more Koreans to become doctors, so you guess correctly.
I have been pitching that idea to anyone who would listen though. Just import. For my blog I get five emails a day asking how to be a doctor in Korea. https://twitter.com/ChrisCroy/status/1300996255531892736
I have been pitching that idea to anyone who would listen though. Just import. For my blog I get five emails a day asking how to be a doctor in Korea. https://twitter.com/ChrisCroy/status/1300996255531892736
There are so many 2d gen Korean Ams who are from some random small towns because their parents were doctors who got their Green Card by signing up to work at a small town. Jim Yong Kim (former president of World Bank) is from Iowa, for example.
S Korea's rural areas are already populated heavily with immigrant populations from China, SE Asia and S Asia. Why not import doctors from those countries too, and put them right with the immigrant communities in the rural areas? There is no downside to this.
Christ Almighty. On a TV debate between KMA and the govt, the KMA rep is literally saying "hospitals are too accessible" because the Nat'l Health Insurance sets the cost of visit "too low."
The doctors' argument is they are being overworked because NHIS makes healthcare "too accessible." But they want the govt to solve this without adding more doctors; they just want to charge patients more so they can't afford to come to the hospital. This is sociopathic.
