Doctor’s at Three Major Hospitals in Korea Cancel Appointments in Protest of Increase of Medical School Students
It is amazing that doctors would just cancel appointments like this at the last minute. Who knows how long some of these patients have been waiting for an appointment before they were cancelled:
Some medical professors at the country’s three major hospitals, Seoul National University Hospital, Severance Hospital and Korea University Hospital, suspended surgeries and outpatient clinics on Tuesday for one day, as previously announced, to protest the government’s plan to expand the number of new medical students by 2,000 a year.
The main hall at SNUH’s Cancer Hospital was without medical staff Tuesday, while a number of patients wandered around the ward, having just learned that the doctors wouldn’t be coming in. Some said they hadn’t been told that their appointments would be canceled or postponed; other said they had to wait in long queues, not knowing when their names would be called.
Korea Herald
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These kind of actions seem to be at odds with the Hippocratic Oath or other oaths like the Declaration of Geneva, which says, in part:
“AS A MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION:
Maybe hypocrite sounds the same in Korean?
Them: “Sarcasm will get you nowhere.”
Me: “It got me 5 million won and a second place trophy at the 14th Korean International Sarcasm Expo in Busan in 2017.”
Them: “Really?”
Me: “No.”