Thursday Deadline for Korean Doctors to Return to Work Approaches
Can anyone think of a strike where people were protesting against the addition of jobs? That is essentially what this is. The government wants more medical school slots to address the shortage of doctors in rural areas and current doctor trainees do not want this:
A mass walkout by trainee doctors is approaching a deadline set by the government to return to work, as medical services have been crippled with both the government and junior doctors showing little signs of backing down.
About 9,000 trainee doctors walked off their jobs for the ninth day in a row Wednesday, as the government ordered them to go back to work by Thursday. Unless they return to work, they will face suspension of licenses and even indictment.
At the center of the dispute is the government’s plan to boost the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 next year, from the current 3,058.
On Tuesday, President Yoon Suk Yeol said the plan is a “minimum necessary measure” to address a shortage of doctors and stressed that, “This cannot and should not be a subject for negotiation or compromise.”
Yonhap
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Remeber when fast food workers demanded skilled labor wages?
And they got replaced by kiosks?
Well, like a lot of things from ordertakers to pilotless fighters, AI can do most things a doctor does (and pretty much everything a pharmacist does) better (and cheaper).
When you demand more money or walk off the job, you only speed up the process of the management department calling the bean counter department.
This action will mark the beginning of the end for doctors.
Somebody who knows technology and somebody who knows finance will build a diagnostic machine that learns a lot about you and can be hooked to you by a nurse.
The AI will ask you a series of questions based on your results that are more insightful than your doctor would ask.
Then the AI compares your situation to a few billion others that are linked to an outcome, and makes a pretty perfect determination of what your problem is.
Then it solves your problem based on every medical study ever written, minus the ones that are clearly fraudulent because they don’t fit with experimentally established medical science.
This costs a ridiculously low amount of money because it is essentially a home PC running a 10 year old GPU and software that some guy is making as a hobby.
(The actual cost will be due to government involvement.)
Sadly, this will be a lot of money to you because SuckGPT is manning your old glory hole or whatever it is you used to lazily do while thinking you could ride it out until retirement without keeping your skills relevant.
We live in the future.
I heard China needs doctors… maybe they’d like to see how flexible Beijing would be with their demands?