SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A temporary measure approved by the government to allowed limited telemedicine services amid heightened alert over new coronavirus infections was met by contrasting views from healthcare workers and patients. A research team from the Catholic University of Korea Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital conducted a survey of 906 patients and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — People always hesitate with the question of whether to tell their families and loved ones about their medical results, especially if it has to do with cancer, Parkinson’s disease, or Alzheimer’s disease. The results of a recent survey showed that a majority of people, including doctors, want to tell [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Pediatrics, one of the most essential fields in the healthcare industry, is struggling from unpopularity as increasing numbers of medical residents are more inclined to join other fields. Seoul’s ‘Big 5’ hospitals — Catholic Medical Center, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Asan Medical Center and Severance Hospital [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Public interest members of a presidential panel on social dialogue on Tuesday issued written advice calling for increasing quotas at local medical schools starting in 2022. In the controversial recommendation, Seoul National University professor Kim Yoon and five other public interest members of the Economic, Social & Labor Council’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Doctors rank at the top in terms of average income among professionals in South Korea. According to data that the National Tax Service submitted to the National Assembly on Tuesday, the incomes of individual medical business owners totaled 16.5 trillion won in 2018, with per-capita annual income averaged at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Doctors with private practices make an average of 20.3 million won (US$17,535) a month, nearly double what they earned a decade ago, a lawmaker said Thursday. Rep. Jang Chul-min of the ruling Democratic Party said he deduced the average monthly earnings of private practice doctors from their health insurance [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major hospitals are maintaining scaled down operations, as trainee doctors have yet to return to work despite an agreement reached to end their weekslong strike, medical sources said Saturday. Large university hospitals have reduced treatments and surgeries and have restricted the number of patients they admit, as [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of senior and junior doctors decided Friday to end a weekslong collective action after reaching a deal with health authorities and the ruling party to review a medical reform plan, but trainee doctors are still threatening to continue their walkout. Doctors at general hospitals and other medical institutes [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An association of trainee doctors across South Korea agreed Sunday to participate in medical services to respond to COVID-19, a decision made in its leaders’ meeting with Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, according to Chung’s office. Interns and residents have gone on strike to protest the government’s medical workforce reform [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of trainee doctors in South Korea went on strike Friday to protest the government’s plan to increase the number of medical students, drawing public criticism amid fears of nationwide spread of the new coronavirus. Trainee doctors have staged a limited strike since early this month after the government [...]