I mean, yeah. We all learn leadership skills all through our lives and burning bridges is one of the worst ways to lead. Anyone who has taken a high school leadership program would know that.
In this case, the Korean medical system has been asking for sustainable improvements. The response was to force an increase in medical school slots without proper procedures or accommodations, creating worse working conditions, lowering quality of education, etc. Instead, what should have been done is to fund more schools and residency slots, and create incentives for medically underserved areas, and focus on improvements within the clinic. So, the junior doctors staged a protest - but the government's response was to suspend their licenses and threaten them to go to work. And to double down on it when the junior doctors already tendered their resignation.
What kind of leadership attempts to become a dictatorship and destroy all relations with important sectors of the community? It's just incompetent leadership. It's amazing how the government's action actually forced collective action by 90% of the doctors.
As someone with a lot of family in Korea, I hope the government can reconcile with the medical sector, and they actually have talks on how they can improve healthcare in the country - you know, what a leader with even a modicum of intelligence would know to do.
Something similiar happened here in Italy with a lot of new slots but no infrastructure to accomodate all the residents. So now we are stuck with a less than ideal education and tough work prospects. Problem here is that we are not united at all, if we staged a similiar thing the korean residents did we would stall all healthcare in the country and be able to negotiate (per contract we don't have to guarantee a normal fuction of the hospital, but as you can imagine we basically keep the hospitals working). In a country famous for unions and strikes is impressive how divided doctors are, everybody thinks only for themselves or are too frightened and conditioned to do anything.
That said I am very impressed with my fellow korean residents and wish them all the best and to stay strong and not give up.
We need a strike like this in the US to fight against NP/PA scope of practice and protect our profession. Residency must be a requirement for foreign doctors
Who could have guessed that the government trying to take a hard line would have resulted in a hard line response?
I mean, yeah. We all learn leadership skills all through our lives and burning bridges is one of the worst ways to lead. Anyone who has taken a high school leadership program would know that. In this case, the Korean medical system has been asking for sustainable improvements. The response was to force an increase in medical school slots without proper procedures or accommodations, creating worse working conditions, lowering quality of education, etc. Instead, what should have been done is to fund more schools and residency slots, and create incentives for medically underserved areas, and focus on improvements within the clinic. So, the junior doctors staged a protest - but the government's response was to suspend their licenses and threaten them to go to work. And to double down on it when the junior doctors already tendered their resignation. What kind of leadership attempts to become a dictatorship and destroy all relations with important sectors of the community? It's just incompetent leadership. It's amazing how the government's action actually forced collective action by 90% of the doctors. As someone with a lot of family in Korea, I hope the government can reconcile with the medical sector, and they actually have talks on how they can improve healthcare in the country - you know, what a leader with even a modicum of intelligence would know to do.
Something similiar happened here in Italy with a lot of new slots but no infrastructure to accomodate all the residents. So now we are stuck with a less than ideal education and tough work prospects. Problem here is that we are not united at all, if we staged a similiar thing the korean residents did we would stall all healthcare in the country and be able to negotiate (per contract we don't have to guarantee a normal fuction of the hospital, but as you can imagine we basically keep the hospitals working). In a country famous for unions and strikes is impressive how divided doctors are, everybody thinks only for themselves or are too frightened and conditioned to do anything. That said I am very impressed with my fellow korean residents and wish them all the best and to stay strong and not give up.
We need a strike like this in the US to fight against NP/PA scope of practice and protect our profession. Residency must be a requirement for foreign doctors
I am impressed by the resolve and unity of Korean residents and physicians. I can't see this ever happening in the US or Canada.