SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — There continues to be a wide wage gap between doctors and wage workers, data showed Tuesday. The National Health Insurance Service reported that doctors working at general hospitals and other medical institutions in the country earn around 19.21 million won (US$14,650) each month as of 2020. The average monthly [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents of the eastern island of Ulleung are suffering huge inconvenience as the only general hospital on the island is having difficulty securing specialized medical doctors in some areas of treatment. With 13 public health physicians, the medical center has covered nine areas of treatment. This year, however, the [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Fire Agency (NFA) said Wednesday that it will expand the scope of a service that allows a paramedic in the field to receive real-time instructions on medical treatment via video conference with a duty doctor nationwide. When a paramedic needs to perform advanced medical interventions such as [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 20 doctors lost their medical licenses over the past six years for having unlicensed people practice medicine on their behalf, including plastic surgeries, a report showed Sunday. Two dentists, two doctors of Korean medicine and one nurse had their medial licenses revoked for engaging in such [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The vast majority of healthcare workers in the Seoul area who have received COVID-19 vaccine shots have experienced side effects such as pain and fever. The Seoul Medical Association conducted a survey of 1,708 members, with 88.4 percent of those who had been vaccinated (1,704 people) indicating that they [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean doctors working at correctional facilities such as prisons and detention centers are suffering from poor working conditions and frequent lawsuits by prisoners. The number of general practitioners and specialists working at South Korean correctional facilities totaled 89 as of February, according to the Ministry of Justice. Given [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 70 percent of South Koreans are in favor of a bill on disqualifying doctors convicted of felonies, which is currently under review at the National Assembly, a public opinion poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted Tuesday on 500 people aged 18 or older by Realmeter, 68.5 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A conflict between doctors on one side and the government and the ruling party on the other has become heated over a bill that would disqualify medical doctors convicted of felonies. An association of doctors threatened to carry out “a general strike” of angry doctors across the country if [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest association of doctors said Sunday it will stage a general strike if parliament passes a revised bill on revoking the licenses of medical professionals convicted of serious crimes. The threat by the Korean Medical Association (KMA), which represents about 130,000 doctors, comes only five days before [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A substantial number of South Koreans are in favor of the policy to increase the number of medical doctors and establish public medical schools, a survey showed Tuesday. The Seoul National University Hospital conducted an online survey of 2,097 people aged from 19 to 68 to arrive at this [...]