It has been a while since a doctor in South Korea resigned. Yesterday, I just saw a little girl in South Korea drowning and being taken to the hospital, but there was no doctor to treat her and she died quickly.
Now that South Korea's birth rate is so low, and every child is a precious national asset, it is unforgivable that those so-called doctors in South Korea treat people's lives as a mustard in order to protect their own vested interests.
In order to solve the shortage of doctors in South Korea, the South Korean government wants to recruit more college students to study medicine, which touches the vested interests of existing doctors, causing this vested interest group to quit and kidnap the country and the people with resignation.
It is said that other South Korean presidents in history have also tried to expand the enrollment of medical students, but they have all been thwarted by doctors' interests. This time, it depends on whether Yin Xiyue can persevere to the end, and it seems that Yin Xiyue is still holding on.
Shortly after I started writing this article, I suddenly received information from South Korea: "Today, South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-so, the head of the Presidential Office, the head of the Policy Office, and the chief secretary have all resigned. ...... South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said this morning that he would humbly accept public opinion and carry out governance reforms. ”
The direct reason for the collective resignation of senior officials is that the ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in the parliamentary election, and I don't know if it has anything to do with the paralyzed and poor operation of the medical system in the country. It is difficult to say whether Yoon Suk-yeol will be able to maintain a high-pressure and tough posture internally in the future.
Seriously analyzed, the wave of resignations of South Korean doctors is not directly caused by "doctor-patient disputes", and the South Korean government's approach is to try to solve the problem of shortage of doctors and to expand the group of doctors. The South Korean government's reform of increasing the enrollment of medical schools has triggered a vested interest in the already deeply alienated social class of Korean doctors.
In the United States and the West, doctors belong to the middle class, and long training hours and high incomes are the characteristics of this professional group. Moreover, through the high design of medical insurance, doctors in the United States and the West represent the interests of the chaebols in the pharmaceutical field. Therefore, the income of doctors in the United States and the West is linked to the windfall profits of the plutocracy in the pharmaceutical field.
The high medical expenses of the people correspond to the high medical insurance expenditures - medical insurance only transfers the high medical expenses of individuals to the medical insurance expenditure department, and the overall medical expenditure of the society has not decreased. Only a small part of the high medical expenses of the people become the remuneration of doctors, and the vast majority of the expenses become windfall profits of the chaebols in the pharmaceutical field.
Just take an example from the mainland -- an imported NMR instrument costs 30 million yuan, and a domestic NMR instrument costs 2.6 million yuan, and as of 2020, the mainland has about 15,000 NMR instruments, of which more than 90% are imported. You can calculate, just this kind of medical equipment, how much money can foreign pharmaceutical chaebols and domestic pharmaceutical compradors make?
Of course, this is a global issue, not only involving South Korea and the mainland, but almost all countries. The root cause of the high medical costs that are widely reported in countries around the world is caused by the over-treatment system designed by the chaebols in the pharmaceutical field, and doctors' salaries are only one of the factors.
The South Korean government does not intend to cut the wages of the current group of doctors, but wants to solve the problem of insufficient medical resources and unreasonable allocation in a roundabout way.
This, of course, has to do with the fact that South Korea is a deformed country. After the Korean War, the United States stationed troops in South Korea, depriving the South Korean army of command. South Korea was not a complete country from the beginning, and all social systems had to be devoured alive and learned from the United States.
The medical system designed by the United States and the West is obviously not allowed to master too much medical knowledge by the public, and the practice of medicine by the private sector is prohibited, that is, the scheme that prohibits the public from obtaining cheap medical care. Only a few elites in society are allowed to study medicine, so as to maintain the monopoly of the medical system and protect the chaebols in the pharmaceutical field from violently harvesting the medical expenses of the whole people.
South Korea has gone too far from learning from the West, cultivating too few people to enter the elite ranks to engage in the medical industry, and then these people have made huge profits by monopolizing medical treatment resources, making themselves an abnormally high income group far higher than other income groups, and then forming a triad-like industry association to jointly crack down on groups that harm their interests. South Korean doctors are already showing signs of becoming a new type of chaebol, which can be called a medical valve.
Historically, the regimes on the Korean Peninsula have learned Chinese medicine from the Central Plains. Theoretically, when South Korea's Western medical system is paralyzed, it should be supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which South Korea must name as Korean medicine in order to compete for the right to speak. On the one hand, South Korea has basically transformed "Korean medicine" into a Korean version of traditional Chinese medicine, and on the other hand, it has learned from our previous practice and demanded the "unification" of "Korean medicine" and Western medicine since 1991, which is in essence the gradual abolition of Korean medicine. There is no complete TCM system in South Korea.
It can be said that in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, the arrogant Korean medical authorities inherited the dross of China and Japan, and when Western medicine collectively withdrew, "Korean medicine" was helpless.
South Korea's current medical status is not unsolvable, but I don't want to come up with ideas, after all, this is a family matter, and people don't welcome us to give advice, and it has nothing to do with us that South Korea is heading for demographic decline.
However, we should be wary of the current situation in South Korea whether the mainland's medical system will not be in such a situation that it will not dare to carry out medical anti-corruption for fear of paralysis of the medical industry. China trains a large number of medical students every year, and it is unlikely that China will see a large number of doctors resign and hijack the government on the grounds that people cannot receive timely treatment in order to protect the high vested interests of the doctor community. In particular, our traditional Chinese medicine system has not yet perished under internal and external strangulation, and is still supported by national policies, and it is difficult for those strange phenomena in Korea to appear in China.
Overtreatment is the clearest sign of China's medical corruption
However, the establishment of a universal medical insurance system, the reduction of overtreatment, the reduction of medical insurance fraud and ineffective expenditures and other reform plans will touch the vested interests of the existing chaebols in the pharmaceutical field, which involves the issue of "medical anti-corruption", and the pharmaceutical chaebols involved will definitely fight back and struggle in some form. Let's stop this topic, I can't post it if I talk too much.