Park Dan, Acting Chair of Daejeon Medical Association, "No Intention to Criticize Residents on Duty"

Among some residents who have taken collective action, there have been movements to identify or prevent residents who have returned to medical sites from continuing their work, while voices urging restraint have also emerged within the residents themselves.

According to the medical community on the 10th, Park Dan, the emergency response committee chairman of the Korean Intern Resident Association (Daejeonhyeop), stated on his social networking service (SNS) on the 9th, "I have no intention of criticizing residents who are currently working," and added, "If such behavior is actually occurring online, I hope it will stop."

Amid the ongoing strong confrontation between the government and the medical community over the increase in medical school admissions, medical staff are moving at a large hospital in Seoul on the 29th, the government's deadline for residents who left the hospital to return. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

He said, "Each resident's position and the decisions they make are all different," and added, "Resignation is a matter each person chooses, and continuing to work at the hospital is also their decision, and I respect all those decisions."

On 'MediStaff,' an internet community mainly used by young doctors and medical students, a list mocking residents who stay by patients' sides as 'true doctors' was recently posted, detailing the departments, remaining personnel, and various special notes of residents who stayed at medical sites. In response, the government plans to legally take action by inspecting illegal acts such as incitement or assistance to prevent residents from returning to the field and threatening retaliations among residents.

Park Min-su, the 2nd Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, said, "I cannot help but feel sorry hearing residents' appeals that their colleagues are scarier than license suspension," and added, "It is frustrating to see doctors, who have been entrusted with the duty to save lives, reach such a situation."

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