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[Video] 3 days into a strike by doctors nationwide, patients in South Korea kena growing anxiety over delayed surgeries. If in Sg, what would LHL do?

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Can LHL live up to his father?



@MattDoesLife539

Saw this comment the other day "The SIA pilots took 1 min to decide to give up and apologise. It took them the next 64 minutes to decide who is going to go tell Mr Lee." LOL!
 
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Saw this comment the other day "The SIA pilots took 1 min to decide to give up and apologise. It took them the next 64 minutes to decide who is going to go tell Mr Lee." LOL!
 

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I am not a doctor but I am from this industry. Here's some insights about Korea's healthcare.

The Korean government wants to train more doctors (and nurses) because they want to improve their healthcare system (aging population).

Many Koreans hold dual-citizenships and never give up Korea's because they want to see doctors in Korea when they are old. They are that good.

Their healthcare is so good that now their government just tell their young men to be enlisted for NS by 25 years old, and before that, they can freely go anywhere in the world to work or study. They don't need any deposits or guarantor (required in the past) to counter NS evasion because there ain't few places in the world that will offer better healthcare and social welfare than Korea these days. Eg. some cities in Korea are giving US$100,000 per baby and children get free laptop/tablets every two years.

Korea has one of the best national healthcare system in the world. People wants to retire in Korea now because of their healthcare system and training a lot more doctors and having superb hospitals (some very reputable in our industry).

You go to hospital A&E in Singapore, you gotta wait 5-10 hours if you don't have heart attack. MOH "misplanned" in mid 2010s; refused to increase intake in NUS and NTU for many years after Lee Kong Chian Medical School opened. Despite population projection and two new upcoming hospitals, MOH said it was enough and refused to groom more nurses and Doctors locally (increase intake).

The backup plan was to let those disqualified from local medical schools to fund their own studies overseas, and then offer to subsidize them partially so that they will be bonded to work in our local hospital. It was an irresponsible policy, there were few takers. Few in the right mind will want to return to serve Singapore, after NUS and NTU rejects them to recruit Malaysian, China and ASEAN students.

Concurrently, focus was shifted to groom a large number of therapists in SIT and NYP for physio, occupational, radiology, so that can replace those trained overseas. Eg, up to late 2010s, all physios, podiatrists, radiologists with degrees were from overseas.

Then as our population increased by a million every decade and fallout from COVID and aging population, we have a huge shortage of nurses and doctors. MOH went on to take the shortcut and setup MOH Holdings to hire doctors and nurses from various countries.

Our media did not tell us that our country was misguided. We should be more humble and learn from others, don't always think that we have the best, and we are the best.
 

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we are still underpaid, say nurses
Nurses don't get paid a lot for working unhuman hours and a lot of OTs

For $$$, be teacher is better with school holidays and not working full day + time for tuition. So i agree nurses are underpaid.

Therapists in hospitals are worse, many didn't get the COVID-special pay-raise.
 

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Nurses should migrate to first world countries where they're paid better, treated better, respected and have a life too.
The bonus will be a house with a swimming pool and a garage with at least two cars and a boat parked on the front yard.
Work here for whole life for pittance and as WEF said it, you will own nothing.
Likewise we should also start to recruit vietnamese nurses, they are just paid US$350-600 in vietnam. Prettier too.
 

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Likewise we should also start to recruit vietnamese nurses, they are just paid US$350-600 in vietnam. Prettier too.
vietbus are game for anything. Am sure some of them making the rounds deep in the night can 69 if they get along with you. But I worry about their hygiene
 

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vietbus are game for anything.
Their men are useless. When they have money, they abuse their women.

When viet men have no money, they get marry by 20 so that they have some purpose in life (have kids) and the viet women will need to make money for them.

By mid-20s, viet women will divorce and seek second marriage.
 
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