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bibliotectress , (edited )

There are a lot of problems in the Korean medical system. Here's a journal report discussing a few of the key points: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00766-9/fulltext

Here's a longer article going into detail why the residents are so upset.

Basically, there are a lot of problems with the South Korean healthcare system, leading to unsafe public health situations. Instead of actually trying to fix any of the problems, the government decided to significantly increase the number of residents each year (throw more people at the problems), criminally prosecute them for mistakes, and also tell them it might be illegal to quit, so they'll just take their whole medical license away. Like 90% quit and said they're not coming back. There was a suggestion that the government, instead of completely revoking resigning residents' medical licenses, may remove their ability to work in hospitals ever again, but allow them to work in rural clinics because they're already so understaffed and no one wants to live in the middle of nowhere for shit pay... unless the only other option is to find a new field of work and waste all those years of med school.

*Edited to add more context

bibliotectress , (edited )

Existing doctors see this as competition and a threat to their livelihood. They are already well paid in Korea, so it's just the doctors being greedy.

None of this is true.

bibliotectress , (edited )

From one of the cited articles in the study:

Despite the government's continued conciliation, the return of majors is still a long way off. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, only 879 (8.4%) of the 10,509 residents of 211 training hospitals actually went to work as of the 30th of last month. Based on 100 training hospitals, only 714 out of 9,992 people (7.1%) are working. "The Ministry of Health and Welfare recently sent an official letter to the heads of training hospitals across the country to meet with doctors to confirm their intention to return to the hospital and their future career," said Jeon, a controller. "If you look at the institutions that submitted related data, the response rate for returning majors is less than 10 percent."

bibliotectress ,

I thought that too, and then noticed he's wearing orange and started to figure it out.

bibliotectress ,

Brando Sando has answered the question a bunch of times, and said he's not interested at all. Also, GRRM previously said he would never allow it to be finished by anyone else. Who knows? Maybe the publisher will force it.

bibliotectress ,

There are three subreddits I miss after leaving reddit, and one of them is r/freefolk.

bibliotectress ,

Ugh. We caught a kid doing that in my high school library last May. We radioed for help. The campus supervisor walked him outside, talked to him about it, and sent him back to us to finish the test he was working on. I couldn't believe it. Later, we told admin about it and had to write witness statements. He was a freshman and said it's what he does at home when he's sitting around, and didn't realize he was doing it. None of the students know, as far as I'm aware. We all kept it very quiet.

bibliotectress ,

I love the music for both and both games were part of my teen life, and I replayed Ocarina of Time a lot more... but I agree with FF7. Nobuo Uematsu is incomparable.

bibliotectress ,

For you and anyone else who missed it:

"And I gotta tell ya; I can't wait to debate this guy," Walz continued, before pausing for dramatic effect. "That's if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. "See what I did there?"

The crowd was roaring. I'm not sure if he really paused for dramatic effect. They wouldn't have heard him if he had said it right away. But either way, it was very funny.

bibliotectress ,

Literally same. I've gone back and looked at it a few times, and I can't see white and gold anymore. I think my brain broke.

bibliotectress ,

Fun fact! Erin Hunter is a pseudonym for a collective of authors including Tui Sutherland! She wrote Wings of Fire after she stopped writing/editing Erin Hunter books. I found out while I was working in an elementary school library.

Not my favorite, but I recently finished the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas. Nothing in them is original, and she heavily borrows from folk tales and mythology, but she makes it very satisfying. She's REALLY good at knowing what her audience wants, imo, so it was fun to read.

bibliotectress ,

I just cried again reading it, and I've seen the movie 3 times. That speech is so good.

For me, I REALLY related to the entire speech, so I would've sobbed anyway. But America Ferrera giving the speech made it even more impactful for me. When she was on Ugly Betty, I remember people were really mean online and harshly judged her looks and body type, so the speech felt personal.

There is definitely room for a similar speech about men and toxic masculinity, and the way men are made to feel like they have to be strong and stable all the time. But the speech in Barbie wasn't about them. It felt like it was for me, for my teenage daughter, for my friends, and for all the men with women in their lives that they love.

Life can be really hard, and I was stunned by the "I don't get it" crowd. She spells it out pretty clearly. It's hard not to get.

bibliotectress OP ,

It's not that easy. They don't have much money, and that's why they were living where they were. The city nearby where everyone works became too expensive after the Camp Fire (rent has almost doubled) and then COVID. It's really hard. They would've had to start over completely somewhere else without nearby family, friends, or their jobs. It's just not that simple. Towns burning down is a pretty recent recurrence.

bibliotectress OP ,

That's what happened to us with the Camp Fire, but a guy started the Park Fire (currently at 401,199 acres and 27% contained).

https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/fire-started-by-man-pushing-flaming-car-is-californias-5th-largest-ever/

bibliotectress ,

Honestly, I thought the same thing about Obama. I didn't think there was any way a black guy who'd been living in Chicago would win. But he did! You never know!

Though I agree that the risk would be crazy high to run a black/Indian female president with a gay vice president. Maybe not this psycho election.

bibliotectress ,

Really? I think he's doing a phenomenal job.

bibliotectress ,

I'm sorry, but I can't fathom how any of Boeing's years of falsified sign-offs have anything at all to do with the current Secretary of Transportation. Unless you're unhappy with the FAA investigation? Which would be pretty weird.

bibliotectress ,

They're clearly trying to win if they got so scared about polls they strong-armed Biden into resigning. The panic has pretty clearly set in. We'll see if this works or not.

bibliotectress ,

I was also surprised by that, but I'm still surprised people have them in their living rooms. I guess it's like upgrading from a baby monitor??

bibliotectress ,

That was unnecessarily mean. Are you mad at him because he has stock in the company?

bibliotectress ,

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've been working in public school libraries for almost 10 years now and get paid basically nothing, and since I'm not a teacher, my retirement accrues so slowly that it's basically nonexistent. I'll probably have to work until I die. I should've switched careers a long time ago. One more year and I'm out. I decided to wait until my daughter graduates high school, and then I'll make big life changes.

Just for some perspective, some companies give stock options to employees in lieu of better pay, so the guy you were frustrated with might also be broke.

I hope things look up for you! For all of us!

bibliotectress ,

You're so fucking stupid. Maybe you should read any of those books you claim are being pulled as "pornography."

Source: me, high school librarian

bibliotectress ,

Also Illinois under "Somewhat unacceptable"

bibliotectress ,

I'd you enjoyed Breath of the Wild, you'll probably love Tears of the Kingdom. Some people felt it wasn't different enough from Breath of the Wild, but there's so much more to explore. And there was a part in the story that was so emotional, it made me ugly cry.

bibliotectress ,

You forgot the implication that black women couldn't possibly be skilled or smart enough to be hired. Because they're black. That's the racist part. It's devaluation stemming from racism.

bibliotectress ,

It's an old-fashioned thing to do. When my cousin got married, my aunt gave her a lot of shit for not doing it, so when I got married, I did it, but I don't know many people my age who have. I'm 39, also born and raised in Chicago (where my aunt and cousin still live), but I'm in California now. My family also has a bit of money (not a ton, but they've always had a decent living) and "family name" type pride, so I'm not sure if that's a factor.

bibliotectress ,

That was so fun to read.

bibliotectress ,

Yeah that message would haunt me for life.

bibliotectress ,

They were all pretty close to the books except that they cut out a lot of the pointless bickering that kept happening all the time, so I'd blame JK Rowling for those.

bibliotectress ,

That's even more complicated than I thought it was. I'm not happy about it either, but I'm also not a protest voter, so I'd have voted for Biden either way.

bibliotectress ,

Our system isn't set up that way, so feel free to throw your vote away, but please don't convince others to do that. Some of us don't have the luxury of indulging in protest votes.

bibliotectress ,

At least you have the professors from Rose Hulman to hang out with. And some pretty old strippers, if my brother's college stories are true.

bibliotectress ,

Sure, no problem. Zero down at 7.125% on a home that now costs $350k, but only cost $150k about 5 years ago. I'm sure that's affordable for a family right now.

bibliotectress ,

Thank you!!!!! I was just about to comment and ask for a reminder on how we can view paywalled articles on mobile, and then I saw your link. :)

bibliotectress ,

Wait, why was there a flag at your job site that you needed to stand and salute? That doesn't add up. Maybe we work in different Californias.

bibliotectress ,

I don't care what he personally believes. He made a statement today in support of trans Americans, so that's a pretty big win.

bibliotectress ,

I tried to read this, but it looks like it's paywalled.

bibliotectress ,

How do you get into that line of work??? Not because I want to, just morbid curiosity. I'm too squeamish.

bibliotectress ,

That was super fascinating! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain!

bibliotectress ,

So... who should we vote for instead?

bibliotectress ,

My daughter said Fourth Wing and Iron Flame were pretty frustrating with the betrayal/misunderstanding thing lasting like 500 pages. Do you feel like it was worth the read?

bibliotectress ,

That's the first scifi book I had read in years, and it reminded me how much I LOVE scifi. I sincerely hope you enjoy it!

bibliotectress ,

I'm currently reading book 2 of the Shatter Me series. It's pretty good so far! The books are easy to read, and dystopian books appeal to me. I still don't really know what's going on, but I'm clearer now than I was in the first book, so that's something!

bibliotectress ,

Hmm. I've worked in a high school for the past couple of years, and I feel like my tolerance for melodrama in books is lower than it used to be since I hear melodramatic stories in real life almost every day. I think I'll pass on this one until more books come out to see if it's worth it.

Thanks for your response!!!

bibliotectress ,

I'd kinda favor 401(k)s or something more like that

I'd rather not have to rely on market gambling to survive in my old age. Many people probably agreed with you until about 2008, when a LOT of retirees lost most of their retirement money during the recession and a lot of really old people went back to work. It was pretty bad, and I'll never forget it.

Not that it matters. I can barely afford to live week to week now, let alone save money for retirement. I'll probably just die, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

bibliotectress ,

Yeah it just came out yesterday.

https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/28/politics/donald-trump-appeals-court-new-york/index.html

Associate Justice Anil Singh, however, lifted a ban on Trump’s ability to obtain loans from New York regulated financial institutions, which could allow him to access the equity in his assets to back the full bond amount.

bibliotectress ,

No problem! It's so hard to keep up with everything. Someone please wake me up when real consequences hit. 🙏

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