Su-ho Joo, Chairman of the Media and Public Relations Committee of the Korean Medical Association Emergency Response Committee to block the increase in medical school capacity, is holding a regular briefing at the Korean Medical Association Hall in Yongsan-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 23rd. 2024.2.23/News 1
A medical group criticized the government’s emergency medical measures to prevent a medical crisis caused by a group of medical residents leaving, saying, “Doctors are talking about policies they have advocated for for decades as if they were great measures.”
Su-ho Joo, Chairman of the Media and Public Relations Committee of the Emergency Response Committee of the Korean Medical Association, appeared on MBC Radio’s ‘Kim Jong-bae’s Focus’ on the 26th and said, “Emergency patients should go to university hospitals, patients with moderate symptoms should go to local hospitals, and patients with mild symptoms should go to local clinics. “They say it is the government’s response to the current medical disaster, but we find those parts quite laughable.”
Chairman Joo said, “Only patients with severe or emergency conditions who have difficulty receiving treatment go to university hospitals, patients who do not go to excellent hospitals in local areas, and mild patients go to local clinics near their homes. “As they are concentrated in the so-called metropolitan area, they are outranked by seriously ill emergency patients who actually need to receive treatment at those hospitals,” he said. “That is why emergency rooms are crowded and congested, and we have argued for decades that we need to have an accurate medical delivery system in terms of policy.” “Because it was not accepted, the cumulative results are what is happening today,” he pointed out.
He said, “I don’t understand at all why people are not implementing policies that we have advocated for for decades and are now talking about them as if they were some great policies.”
Chairman Joo also said about measures such as non-face-to-face treatment and expansion of PA nurses, “Regardless of whether it violates the law, we must first consider whether it is effective.”
“Patients excluding severe and emergency patients are flocking to the outpatient clinics of moderately ill hospitals, and when those patients go to general clinics and the outpatient clinics are pushed back, a backlog will form, so aren’t they saying they will solve that problem non-face-to-face? However, he said this is because “non-face-to-face treatment actually takes more time than face-to-face treatment.”
He said, “Especially for first-time patients, the examination begins from the moment they open the door to the hospital’s treatment room, which is called a ‘visit.’ As a doctor, there is only one answer I can give to my patients. “The only option is, ‘Please come abroad,’” he said.
Chairman Joo also expressed concern about the departure of his predecessor, whose contract ends at the end of February. He warned that if they leave, there will be a series of resignations from professors who feel their physical strength is limited.
Chairman Joo said, “There are some full-time doctors who had no choice but to remain. “The work was too hard, but there are people who stayed because their seniors asked them to help and work more. In such cases, they wanted to leave at any time, but in this situation, there are many cases where they voluntarily gave up because they said they could no longer do it,” he said. “Professors say that when full-time doctors give up and leave, they voluntarily give up. “A lot of us think about whether we should resign and move on,” he said.
At the same time, he said, “Currently, full-time residents and professors are holding on to the vacancies of residents, but if the full-time residents leave, the professors will not be able to physically hold on.” He added, “Rather than leaving voluntarily, we have reached a situation where we have reached the limit of our physical strength and cannot hold on any longer.” “I’m worried that I can do it,” he said.
He also added, “There will actually be a lot of people giving up on becoming doctors, and overseas doctor sites are already flooding in. That situation should not happen.”
In response to the host’s question, ‘Is the position that residents will not return to work the same?’ Chairman Joo said, “There is only one thing that residents request from our senior doctors. “The interference of senior doctors in itself undermines autonomous behavior, so we ask you to respect and observe the activities and decisions of our residents and juniors,” he said.
(Seoul = News 1)
2024-02-26 00:56:00
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