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The election of Lim Hyun-taek to the head of the Korean Medical Association is likely to embolden physicians in their protest of government policies aimed at increasing the number of doctors in Korea
The country’s second vice health minister said that one-year medical license suspensions and formal indictments await interns and residents who do not obey the back-to-work order
The South Korean government said it has elevated the health care crisis level to the highest position, as of Friday at 8 a.m., in response to the collective walkout of junior doctors as they show little signs of returning. The highest level of seriousness in the four-tier warning system had previously been issued during the COVID-19 pandemic over a spike in confirmed cases, but this is the first time the government h.