Medical professors across the nation will take collective action if any damage occurs to trainee doctors and medical students protesting the government s decision to significantly .
Police said Wednesday they launched an investigation against five protesting doctors affiliated with the Korea Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors’ group, for charges of breaching medical law. Officials added that the case had been assigned to the public crime investigation division under the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. The announcement came a day after the health ministry filed compl.
A doctors group filed a complaint against opposition leader Lee Jae-myung on Monday, claiming he unfairly used an emergency helicopter to move from the southeastern city of Busan to Seoul when the knife wound he sustained was not serious enough for such an airlift.
The government s national telemedicine pilot is under pressure, as a growing number of medical professionals are boycotting the trial project due to safety concerns.
Major hospitals in Seoul are having difficulty recruiting pediatricians, failing to meet the recruitment quota for pediatric departments in the first half of the upcoming year amid the growing unpopularity of essential medical care roles among young doctors.