She was taken to hospital by helicopter 3½ hours after an initial call to emergency services. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
South Korean ambulances cannot move a patient to an ER without the receiving hospital’s approval.
Refusals have grown more frequent in recent years, driven by chronic staff shortages and the medical staff’s fear of criminal charges if a patient dies in their care. Doctors in South Korea are prosecuted for medical negligence at higher rates than those in other developed countries, according to multiple studies.
That was a depressing watch. As an American I see this on a larger scale happening here. Well the oligarchs that want to run the US want a dumb neo-slave population.
Deeper than fucked up laws, the fact that you can’t just point at a situation where the law isn’t working and say we should handle it differently, because that’s illegal, and you have to jump through hoops and grow old waiting to get the law slightly improved.
that sounds horrible. in the country where i am from even a person who gives you the first aid cannot be possibly prosecuted as long as they give it their best shot at helping you, even if they would end up ultimately harming you (for example they try to stop a bleeding after a car accident and mess up your broken spine when moving you).
Sounds like a super toxic medical system, wtf
South Korea sounds toxic in general tbh.
Two dystopias in one peninsula 💀
I’d consider it a genuine cyberpunk dystopia society at this point.
That was a depressing watch. As an American I see this on a larger scale happening here. Well the oligarchs that want to run the US want a dumb neo-slave population.
Yeah, that sounds awful. And I bet the doctors and nurses are paid like shit, too.
Riiight.
Well, nurses are paid like shit here in Sweden. But doctors, not so much.
How is denying patients not medical negligence as well
Laws built up and based upon themselves with the written rules stealing power from our own common sense and morality
Basically: fucked up laws
Deeper than fucked up laws, the fact that you can’t just point at a situation where the law isn’t working and say we should handle it differently, because that’s illegal, and you have to jump through hoops and grow old waiting to get the law slightly improved.
that sounds horrible. in the country where i am from even a person who gives you the first aid cannot be possibly prosecuted as long as they give it their best shot at helping you, even if they would end up ultimately harming you (for example they try to stop a bleeding after a car accident and mess up your broken spine when moving you).