The South Korean government is targeting a medical group, as a doctor-walkout throws the country's health care system into chaos.SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's government launched legal action Friday against groups for allegedly instigating a mass walkout by thousands of trainee doctors that has hobbled the nation's health care system during the past 10 days.medical school enrollment quotas from around 3,000 a year to more than 5,000.
Ryu O. Hada, an emergency room trainee in Daejeon, Seoul's fifth-largest city says few doctors want to work in smaller cities, where raising a family is more difficult. "Hospitals are saving up money to continue building branches, expanding and creating franchises," he says."It's exploitation. This is modern slavery."
There are also disparities between popular, high-paying, low-risk medical fields, and others. Patient Na Yoon-hee is skeptical that training more doctors will help, because, given the choice,"they all want to go into dermatology or plastic surgery," while pediatricians, obstetricians, gynecologists and emergency room doctors are in short supply in remote areas.