In the 2024 physician strike, Yoon Suk-yeol, a South Korean ** who advocates medical reform, and the Korean Medical Doctor Association, which opposes the expansion of medical students, both mentioned the same case on different occasions The death of a nurse at Asan Hospital in Seoul on July 24, 2022, to verify their claims.
Seoul Asan Hospital is not only the largest general hospital in Korea, but also one of the top five hospitals in Seoul with the most resources and top medical technology in the country. However, on July 24, 2022, a nurse in his 30s who worked in the hospital suddenly felt a splitting headache after finishing the morning shift that day and fainted in the hospital. However, at that time, Asan Hospital in Seoul was unable to perform emergency surgery on the nurse due to a temporary shortage of neurosurgeons. After several hours of delay, the patient was transferred to Seoul National University Hospital, where he died due to delayed surgery.
The experience of the deceased nurse caused a very big shock and anger in South Korean society The resource-rich Seoul Asan Hospital is the only specialized medical unit in South Korea equipped with a neurological emergency team.
The hospital later said that despite the establishment of a neuroemergency team, only two neurosurgeons at Seoul Asan Hospital were qualified to perform emergency brain surgery, but one of them was traveling abroad to attend the seminar at the time of the incident, while the other was on a business trip to another hospital to provide support, so the regrettable result was the result.
After this incident, South Korea, which strongly advocated medical reform, emphasized that the lack of medical talents and specialty training is the background of the tragedy of this case; However, the medical association said that this case reflects the unequal subsidy of South Korea's health insurance, and the health insurance points for cerebrovascular surgery are too low, which is the reason for the loss of specialists and the reluctance to invest in high-risk surgery. This also makes this case a condensed example of the manpower dispute over Korean physicians.
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