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Medical crisis

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How to deepen the ongoing medical crisis

We hope the education minister stops making trouble.

2024.10.9

Cheering for the doctor behind the blacklist? (KOR)

Doctors must come down from their high horses and act in respect to public interest and sentiment.

2024.9.26

Cheering for the doctor behind the blacklist?

Doctors must come down from their high horses and act in respect to public interest and sentiment.

2024.9.25

What a lax response to the medical crisis (KOR)

What’s urgent now is to devise extraordinary measures to effectively resolve the alarming medical vacuum, not a quick fix.

2024.9.6

What a lax response to the medical crisis

What’s urgent now is to devise extraordinary measures to effectively resolve the alarming medical vacuum, not a quick fix.

2024.9.5

Two medical professionals walk into a general hospital in downtown Seoul on Wednesday. [NEWS1]

Gov't to import foreign doctors in move medical association brands ‘insane’

The government is lowering the hurdles to bring in doctors with foreign-issued medical licenses, aiming to expand a utilizable labor pool to prepare for a long-term medical void.

2024.5.9

Rescue workers transfer an emergency patient.

Most vulnerable patients hit hardest amid gov't and medical sector standoff

Patients in critical condition or with severe illnesses are being hit the hardest by the ongoing clash between the government and the medical sector over the medical school quota expansion. Patients hold both sides responsible for the medical crisis.

2024.4.19

Here it comes!

The ongoing medical crisis is heading into unknown territory as trainee doctors will lose their licenses if they don’t present the government with convincing reasons by Monday for their months-long walkout.

2024.3.24

A doctor enters a professors' lab at a hospital in Seoul on Sunday. Professors at medical schools decided to submit resgination letters starting March 25 in solidarity with junior doctors who have been on a monthlong strike to protest the government's decision to increase the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 starting next year. [YONHAP]

Medical school professors to resign en masse nationwide

Professors at 16 medical schools have decided to resign starting March 25 over the government's obstinate stance on raising the medical school enrollment quota.

2024.3.17

A doctor massages his shoulder as he stands at a university hospital in Seoul on Friday. The government on the same day raised its national health crisis warning to the highest ″serious″ level as mass resignations of trainee doctors continued. [YONHAP]

Telemedicine services to be expanded as 'golden hour' of medical crisis looms

The government is widening access to virtual consultations and issuing the most severe crisis level as medical students continue to walk off the job over the pending hike in the med school enrollment quota.

2024.2.23

Tag: Medical crisis

Medical crisis

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How to deepen the ongoing medical crisis

Cheering for the doctor behind the blacklist? (KOR)

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