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.
Sounds like a super toxic medical system, wtf
South Korea sounds toxic in general tbh.
Two dystopias in one peninsula 💀
How is denying patients not medical negligence as well