South Korean ambulances cannot move a patient to an ER without the receiving hospital’s approval.
Refusals have grown more frequent in recent years, driven by chronic staff shortages and the medical staff’s fear of criminal charges if a patient dies in their care. Doctors in South Korea are prosecuted for medical negligence at higher rates than those in other developed countries, according to multiple studies.
Sounds like a super toxic medical system, wtf
Yeah, that sounds awful. And I bet the doctors and nurses are paid like shit, too.
Riiight.
Well, nurses are paid like shit here in Sweden. But doctors, not so much.
How is denying patients not medical negligence as well
Laws built up and based upon themselves with the written rules stealing power from our own common sense and morality
that sounds horrible. in the country where i am from even a person who gives you the first aid cannot be possibly prosecuted as long as they give it their best shot at helping you, even if they would end up ultimately harming you (for example they try to stop a bleeding after a car accident and mess up your broken spine when moving you).
South Korea’s commitment to speed running their population collapse is impressive.
probably 1 of thier reason of a larger problem.
so many epic speedrun techs
So I live in South Korea. The medical system here is heavily subsidized and socialized. This makes it very cheap and (mostly) accessible, but the downside is the bureaucracy that comes with that. It is also a very litigious culture, which makes it worse. Doctors here are extremely wary to prescribe anything too strong, and they communicate very little with the patients. It’s just, “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” And of course the neo-confucian mindset is also very strong here, with all the rigid hierarchy that comes with it.
Neo-confucian?
Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher. It strongly influenced the development of Korean society, and it was the official state ideology at one point. It is still very prevalent, although not always expressed explicitly.
This is such an interesting answer. It’s accurate and very detailed requiring work and research, yet provides absolutely no useful information relevant to the thread and context in which it appears. I’m so curious how it came to be.
Your comment is also lacking in useful information, but with the added flair of entitled condescension.
No one here owes you anything. You’re on the internet. If you want information, look it up yourself instead of whinging on about how someone else didn’t do the job for you.
Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius
It refers to Confucianism as it was revived during and after the Song dynasty (성리학). In the case of Korea, it typically refers to the orthodoxy that traces its heritage back to Confucius through Zhuxi, the Cheng brothers, and Mencius.
Also not to be confused with New Confucianism, which is a modern Chinese development of Confucianism.
so like… what do they believe? what IS the ideology? like the actual ideas.
Of course!
Its a question more asking about what neo confucian means here
I’m as clueless as you, and I’m just poking fun at the use of “of course” to mention it in original comment.
Thomas A. Anderson-Confucius
The medical system here in Korea has the full spectrum of convenient and affordable treatment to almost comically broken policies like the ones this article mentions. Even so, it is overall still so much better than healthcare in the US (I know that is a low bar, but the contrast is stark).
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