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[–] 109 points 6 months ago (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] 70 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Sounds like a super toxic medical system, wtf

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  • [–] 48 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    South Korea sounds toxic in general tbh.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    How is denying patients not medical negligence as well

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Laws built up and based upon themselves with the written rules stealing power from our own common sense and morality

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    Deeper than fucked up laws, the fact that you can’t just point at a situation where the law isn’t working and say we should handle it differently, because that’s illegal, and you have to jump through hoops and grow old waiting to get the law slightly improved.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    that sounds horrible. in the country where i am from even a person who gives you the first aid cannot be possibly prosecuted as long as they give it their best shot at helping you, even if they would end up ultimately harming you (for example they try to stop a bleeding after a car accident and mess up your broken spine when moving you).

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