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Public health sector collective agreements remain in dispute
New major disputes are opening in the public health sector as the ongoing dialogue, which has been underway for...
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South Korea to send military doctors to hospitals amid doctors’ protest
South Korea will send its military and community doctors to hospitals within the next few days as part of...
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South Korea nurses to take on more medical work due to doctor walkout
South Korean nurses have been given legal protection to perform some medical procedures normally conducted by doctors, the health...
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South Korea gives protesting doctors end-Feb deadline to return to work
South Korea's government on Monday told young doctors they had until the end of February to return to work...
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Overworked and unheard, South Korean doctors on mass walkout say
Ryu Ok Hada always wanted to help people, but now the South Korean trainee doctor has walked off the...
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South Korea raises health alert to ‘severe’ over protest by doctors
South Korea has raised its health alert as of Friday morning after thousands of doctors walked off the job...
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South Korean hospitals extend working hours to tackle doctors’ protest
Public hospitals in South Korea will extend working hours, the prime minister said on Friday, while expanding use of...
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Dismayed South Korean patients urge resolution of doctors’ protest
Three days into a mass walkout by trainee doctors, patients in South Korea expressed growing worry and frustration on...
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South Korea doctors to keep up protests as hospitals turn patients away
The emergency departments at three of South Korea's biggest hospitals were on red alert on Thursday as trainee doctors...
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South Korea emergency units turn back patients as doctors protest
South Korea's biggest hospitals cancelled procedures and turned away patients seeking emergency care on Wednesday after thousands of trainee...
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Doctors warn of mess and confusion over contracts
"We're already operating with four categories of doctors in state hospitals. There's already confusion, and if we don't take...
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Personal doctors’ compensation ranges from €100,000 to €450,000
The Health Insurance Organization (HIO) began recording data for 2023 to determine the differences brought about by the new...
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Doctors exploit GHS weaknesses
Doctors in the General Healthcare System (GHS) exploit waiting lists, seeing their patients "privately" in various ways, and asking...
