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Trance on 4/2/2009 at 14:50
hara-kiri*
Queue on 4/2/2009 at 15:04
I've seen it both ways (but, you're right).
...fucking internet
Koki on 4/2/2009 at 15:14
We did that in Poland years ago. Two hospitals couldn't decide whose jurisdiction the guy was in.
demagogue on 4/2/2009 at 17:10
The story doesn't surprise me. The attitude in Japan is (traditionally anyway) that professionals are a privileged status, so only the top 1% or so that passes a test can become doctors, lawyers, and teachers. So you get ridiculous shortages of these jobs that lead to problems like this. It's the darkside of insisting on perfection.
A number of my Japanese lawyer friends have been part of the movement to get more lawyers, and that movement managed to increase the pass rate from 1.5% to about 12% ... still peanuts by US & European standards. I'd imagine there's a similar battle going on for doctors.
SubJeff on 4/2/2009 at 20:14
This can happen anywhere. Similar issues with beds and staff happens in the UK all the time.
We often have people on ITU who are only there because there are no beds on "normal" wards. Until ITU is full and we really need a bed then miraculously a bed on the ward appears. That's management for you. And if there really are no ITU beds people get transferred to other ITU units that can be an hours drive away.
Heck, 2 years ago a hospital I was at "closed" to new admissions because it was just full. If you had someone coming in with a serious injury they'd get treated in the emergency department but after that...
dlw6 on 5/2/2009 at 10:55
This is not difficult to understand. Japan's average age is rising rapidly, the same as in Europe and other places with a high standard of living. They don't euthanize their elderly as some European nations are rumored to do. The people who are not having kids in order to gain a better standard of living (causing the average age to rise) are also more likely to pay someone to care for their elderly parents.
Therefore, their hospitals are full. With prices in Japan perpetually high, they won't solve this any time soon.
DC on 5/2/2009 at 11:12
Quote Posted by dlw6
They don't euthanize their elderly as some European nations are rumored to do.
:weird:
Eh, what?
Trance on 5/2/2009 at 11:43
Quote Posted by dlw6
They don't euthanize their elderly as some European nations are rumored to do.
hahaha what the fuck
demagogue on 5/2/2009 at 22:29
Japan does have a serious demographic problem; when you look at a chart of their age statistics it looks like a wine glass. I remember at some of my schools, certain grades just didn't exist because not a single child was born that year!
Why the aging problem isn't as dire in US and European countries I think has more to do with certain demographic trends like, to throw a wild idea out there, the birthrate ... more than say, uh, euthanasia lol.
