It's not against increasing the numbers of students of medicine. It's about BETTER conditions for everybody working…
I meant I'm always mad at the state of things but I'm too small to do anything important about it and so from time to time I rant about it LOL. Particularly when it's something I feel deeply about. And I usually underestimate how much it bothers me until I start writing about it and can't stop.
(You should HEAR me rant about it, in the very few occasions I allow myself to let go LOL. - Which means, no, you shouldn't get to hear me hahaha~)
Miyata was gay in high school, and 12 years later he still has feelings for his first crush... but he's never…
Some people don't like being pressured into sex for sex's sake. He liked Iwanaga but he was too young and naive to do anything about it, and then he even tried to grow "straight" by getting a GF. And he's not even bi, presumably, so he'd not even try to get it on with HER, LOL. Maybe he felt loyal enough to her (or the idea of a BF/GF relationship) not to look at another man.
And now Iwanaga's back in the picture, Miyata finally has a chance to do something with someone he actually KNOWS (I think it's a lot about trusting the other one, when you finally go for it - not in the sense of trusting him with your life, but with the respect and care and patience for a first time).
Or maybe I'm a freaking romantic LOL. We need to watch closely in the next ep and check if his right hand isn't already worn off.
I´m so done with this show like wtf was that ending? Like everybody is happy expect my poor boy....He suffered…
Do both of them die? I'm stuck at 12th, at this moment I'm betting if they ever find that vaccine or whatever they're going to sacrifice and give it to the cop's daughter because that's how kdramas always work.
I was wondering if they even try to maybe save at least one of them...
It's not against increasing the numbers of students of medicine. It's about BETTER conditions for everybody working…
Well, I'm pretty close to you (we've also been behind the Iron Curtain), we're not doing any better. But from my POV (I don't think it's too extremist but POVs... vary) a state has no business existing if it's not for the good of its citizens. I don't see why politicians/gov't/any official institutions have to cut into MY/OUR rights and leisure to enjoy life itself for the sake of theoretical "good of society" (decided by who?) and the "free market economy" (that covers everything they want to privatise or milk out for their own use.)
It's a class war in the end, and we're almost all of us on the always losing side. Doctors - and miners, and teachers, and police officers, and even the small time corporate drone - are all the exact SAME if you look at the big picture. Pitting us against each other means we don't pay attention to what the other hand is doing - and the other hand is robbing us blind, not just of money, but of the sense of community and belonging to it, or being part of the actual nation or of having actual VALUE as a human existing on the freaking planet. I don't see any other profession as being lesser or better than the one I'm into, and I don't - ever - begrudge anyone of the right to fight for what they believe is theirs. (Even the miners. Even if they maybe might have it a bit better than other workers - that doesn't mean they don't have the right to protest).
In my country, everybody who wants to and is intelligent enough can go to medical school. We have thousands of residents who take the exam per year. And when they have their experience and pass the finals, they leave for better pastures in other EU countries where they do the same work but for better pay (which doesn't mean anything since the cost of living is also different) but more importantly, in MUCH BETTER conditions. If you're already working in a competitive field you KNOW it doesn't even matter how much you make, it's always the people around you and the work conditions that make you stay even if you could earn more somewhere else.
That's why the SK residents and new doctors are protesting. You'll only hear the anti propaganda, though, how they're well paid and don't want competition etc - the truth is always in the middle. I'd rather believe THEM, who are like me, even if they work a different profession, than the habitual liars - politicians and "journalists" who publish whatever the boss is asking for, in a country where basically three or four big corpos actually RULE (there's that thread about the fake rage about Mercedes cars in chaebol dramas, somebody said that Samsung alone brings in 22% of the country's GDP.)
Argh, I said I wasn't going to get mad about it again. Oh well, a few more escapism dramas should do it *sigh*.
They missed the time, didn't they, those klutzes LOL. Why are all these guys living in the freaking jungle though?!TBH…
So let me get this straight (ha!).
1st world Thai is a thug and his dad killed Phupha because of some unsolved business reasons. Khram was an idiot and fell for Phupha who's already engaged and never told him before proposing they lose their virginity to each other (if he didn't lie about that) with unprotected sex. That's... scum level in my book. So 1st world Phupha is scum.
2nd world Thai is actually a good guy who (according to the drama info) was Khram's lover (and meeting Khram saved him from becoming a thug.) Phupha never met any of them (maybe Thai's dad) and so... what exactly is Khram trying to save him FROM?! Events don't go the same way - proof is that in one world Phupha dies, in the other it's Khram who's BEEN dead for years already (which begs the question - who / what killed him?)
What's the use of dragging 2nd world Phupha into the 1st world (though I think they missed the time anyway). It'll only bring him into the original killer's attention AGAIN. So then 2nd world Phupha dies too.
I bet Khram is not really the brightest bulb LOL Is THAT how he intended to save him?! I thought the idea was that Thai as a bodyguard will do the saving.
Oh well, it remains to be seen.
But seriously though - why live in the jungle?! Imagine the mosquitoes! And how do they get to work, do they walk all the time, back and forth?! Is the drama budget so low they couldn't afford city app'ts, or is that from the novel?!
They missed the time, didn't they, those klutzes LOL.
Why are all these guys living in the freaking jungle though?!
TBH I actually like it. At least they have a lot of nature scenes and while the plot really is strange at times, this is a fantasy so I'll give it a pass.
Ok, Shen Ci case is interesting. Am I supposed to have suspended disbelief that they won’t believe that the…
You know, that's actually a great point. But Pan Yue doesn't know about the bewitching, and maybe he wouldn't believe it if he knew anyway. I still hope Shen Ci isn't a witch himself, because it would be nice to finally find someone who really is imprisoned but innocent.
Then again... he keeps drawing that ripple symbol. I guess he'll turn out to be no. 3 now that no. 4 is out of the secret organisation, LOL.
It's not against increasing the numbers of students of medicine. It's about BETTER conditions for everybody working…
1. Every society/population ages in the Western world and the countries living to the same standard. The only places where population growth still happens is in very poor countries and sadly, I think the youngest general population is in the Gaza strip, which we don't need to discuss here but it's obvious why they're the youngest for a whole (not recognised) country. There is no natural progression in the field because it's seriously underfunded (you can't just throw bodies at the problem, they need medicine and infrastructure to do their work right - and also there is NO human body able to resist through working 80-100 hours weekly under stress. NONE. Even soldiers need respite. And the money for medicine and infrastructure isn't there, and isn't even in the discussion either. This law doesn't address that at all.)
2. The thing the SK new doctors complain about is that there are no more experienced/higher up doctors even being hired. Every hospital that can do it just takes in residents, works them like slaves and then just replaces them with newer residents instead of hiring them. Basically, if they can escape the consequences, they're treating them like low-paid interns for the terms of the residency and then don't offer them posts but pick other new people to do the same.
3. I can promise you that NO capitalism-involving politics will ever plan ahead for the good/sake of community, despite the pompous words. There are 1-st world countries where they disdain the idea of helping others in their society if they're on their worst time. Everything intended to help the poor and needy is seen as communist/socialist (they usually mix these up as if they were the same thing) and then there's a lot of propagandistic talks and news and whatnot condemning helping the poor or the less fortunate. IF this becomes law, there is NO surety there will be any drive to push the new students into the fields that actually lack personnel - they'll just say it's a free market and let them decide for themselves. And the main reason will be that the COUNTRY can't afford to pay for services intended for the less fortunate and so there will actually be no budget for those. So even if the country is aging and there's a growing need for doctors specialising in getriatrics' needs, there won't be a lot of such doctors coming up even if they triple the numbers. In the end, the overflow will still remain in the bigger cities, specialised in the best-paying fields, and THAT will (maybe) drive the prices in those fields lower OR drive the quality of what they're offering also lower (which is more probable. I mean - just considering plastic surgery, someone desperate enough might accept a low-quality job and pay a bit less than none at all. It's already happening in some place - including Europe.)
4. I love statistics. You know what the problem with statistics is? If you get 100 USD and I get none, that means we each have a mean/average value of 50 USD in our respective pockets. You should look instead at MEDIAN values of revenues for doctors and then maybe split it into fields of specialisation. You'll see beginners - which residents are - are the lowest paid (though probably better than just nurses obviously) and there are very few senior specialists who get the highest wages/revenue of any kind (include bonuses here etc) that skew the scale into very wrong numbers overall. Obviously someone can pick and choose which statistic they want to present in order to justify anything... But numbers can lie. Like, A LOT.
For a for-profit org, which most hospitals are part of, the most important thing is cost-saving. And they'll be extremely happy to report mean wages (that include CEOs and CFOs and whatever highest paid manager there is) instead of median wages, because then the emperor loses his clothes and the actual wages become starkly apparent.
If people strike, they don't do it because they like not being paid for the duration of the strike. But cost of living keeps going up and the earnings never ever keep pace. Corps and international orgs have been getting away with way too much and if you just look at how the gap between haves and have-nots has grown in JUST the past few years (starting around the time of the pandemic) you'll see that we the normal people have always been getting poorer despite all appearances, while the wealth of the world kept being sucked up to the very priviledged few (EXTREMELY few). That is not sustainable.
Oh, and want to hear some more (socialistic) drivel? YOU and I can do our parts to ~save the planet~ by being careful of consumption and energy saving and cleaning up after ourselves and recycling and whatnot and then ONE idiot who owns a private plane or yacht will nullify our complete sacrifice in the name of saving the planet in one or two flights (not long distance) or sailing to their own private island. If you think YOUR pressure on a politician will count more or at least the same with some one the actually priviledged's needs... *sigh*
I mean, I myself am drowning in serotonine-causing binge drama watching for a reason. Part of that reason is that, periodically, I dare to look at the state of the world and I shudder. If people keep fighting, with all means they can use, more power to them! I won't condemn them.
This is a class war and we're all in it, whether we like it or not. The fact that people who protest are seen as "already" priviledged doesn't point them as wrong - it points at everybody who's at the same level or under feeling inconvenienced and deciding that the people who are slightly better off are the enemies.
And that's why I'm going to go and binge-watch some more because enough reality for today.
I reaaaallly want to like it, but the family complott and the crazy 2nd lead are making it really hard for me.…
Not this year, apparently. This, Impossible Heir, and now they've just announced another conglomerate drama starring Le JeHoon, I guess the theme of every other drama for the year is fixed now.
I really wanted to see more supernatural dramas in 2024 *sigh*
This is a web drama. I don't think they reserve time slots for them, and also their general release dates change a lot depending on a lot of variables.
Honestly? Not surprised. It's a shame, cause it's one of my top-awaited dramas this year, and I personally don't…
It's not against increasing the numbers of students of medicine. It's about BETTER conditions for everybody working NOW. The residents are treated like s*it, and not just in SK, paid very little, and not guaranteed any position once they finish the residency. The proposed law basically almost doubles the number of students in medicine schools but does nothing to improve the problems with finding positions/giving better work conditions (including financial support) for already trained new doctors.
And - reading comments from people who say they're striking in SK posted on some news articles about it - one fear that is also being pushed aside is the TYPE of new doctors the increased numbers will actually train... because some say (again, hearsay, so I don't know how true it is) that, since the most money appears to be in plastic surgery, a lot of these doctors will probably choose the lucrative side of the profession and so the remote rural communities that are underfunded already and have a general lack of medical professionals will NOT see any benefits of the law and are used as a pretext to push the law through.
I am a bit salty regarding news articles about anything having to do with people protesting work conditions and wages that do not keep up with the inflation, because I've been also in a strike and all the news sites took a lot of care NEVER to publish our demands and the reasons behind them but always present the strike as detrimental to the good of society. Strikes happen when you can't take it any more, and the fact that people already resign positions they've been studying for years and competed extremely hard to get should tell you these are not just some upset people who don't want more competition (they already have a job. Or used to.)
Last year they changed the schedule for TTEOM about four times and drove us mad. I kind of doubt there were that many gov't announcements in a three-week period to force them into it. I'd rather guess they did it for more traffic and to make people get the VVIP express package for the last eps or something (which I don't blame them for, it's bussiness for them.) It just was very maddening to expect eps and them not being released because the schedule changed again, LOL.
I hope they don't do the same with IB, because there's still half of the drama left to air...
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(You should HEAR me rant about it, in the very few occasions I allow myself to let go LOL. - Which means, no, you shouldn't get to hear me hahaha~)
And now Iwanaga's back in the picture, Miyata finally has a chance to do something with someone he actually KNOWS (I think it's a lot about trusting the other one, when you finally go for it - not in the sense of trusting him with your life, but with the respect and care and patience for a first time).
Or maybe I'm a freaking romantic LOL. We need to watch closely in the next ep and check if his right hand isn't already worn off.
Then multiply that by at least 10.
I was wondering if they even try to maybe save at least one of them...
It's a class war in the end, and we're almost all of us on the always losing side. Doctors - and miners, and teachers, and police officers, and even the small time corporate drone - are all the exact SAME if you look at the big picture. Pitting us against each other means we don't pay attention to what the other hand is doing - and the other hand is robbing us blind, not just of money, but of the sense of community and belonging to it, or being part of the actual nation or of having actual VALUE as a human existing on the freaking planet. I don't see any other profession as being lesser or better than the one I'm into, and I don't - ever - begrudge anyone of the right to fight for what they believe is theirs. (Even the miners. Even if they maybe might have it a bit better than other workers - that doesn't mean they don't have the right to protest).
In my country, everybody who wants to and is intelligent enough can go to medical school. We have thousands of residents who take the exam per year. And when they have their experience and pass the finals, they leave for better pastures in other EU countries where they do the same work but for better pay (which doesn't mean anything since the cost of living is also different) but more importantly, in MUCH BETTER conditions. If you're already working in a competitive field you KNOW it doesn't even matter how much you make, it's always the people around you and the work conditions that make you stay even if you could earn more somewhere else.
That's why the SK residents and new doctors are protesting. You'll only hear the anti propaganda, though, how they're well paid and don't want competition etc - the truth is always in the middle. I'd rather believe THEM, who are like me, even if they work a different profession, than the habitual liars - politicians and "journalists" who publish whatever the boss is asking for, in a country where basically three or four big corpos actually RULE (there's that thread about the fake rage about Mercedes cars in chaebol dramas, somebody said that Samsung alone brings in 22% of the country's GDP.)
Argh, I said I wasn't going to get mad about it again. Oh well, a few more escapism dramas should do it *sigh*.
1st world Thai is a thug and his dad killed Phupha because of some unsolved business reasons. Khram was an idiot and fell for Phupha who's already engaged and never told him before proposing they lose their virginity to each other (if he didn't lie about that) with unprotected sex. That's... scum level in my book. So 1st world Phupha is scum.
2nd world Thai is actually a good guy who (according to the drama info) was Khram's lover (and meeting Khram saved him from becoming a thug.) Phupha never met any of them (maybe Thai's dad) and so... what exactly is Khram trying to save him FROM?! Events don't go the same way - proof is that in one world Phupha dies, in the other it's Khram who's BEEN dead for years already (which begs the question - who / what killed him?)
What's the use of dragging 2nd world Phupha into the 1st world (though I think they missed the time anyway). It'll only bring him into the original killer's attention AGAIN. So then 2nd world Phupha dies too.
I bet Khram is not really the brightest bulb LOL Is THAT how he intended to save him?! I thought the idea was that Thai as a bodyguard will do the saving.
Oh well, it remains to be seen.
But seriously though - why live in the jungle?! Imagine the mosquitoes! And how do they get to work, do they walk all the time, back and forth?! Is the drama budget so low they couldn't afford city app'ts, or is that from the novel?!
Why are all these guys living in the freaking jungle though?!
TBH I actually like it. At least they have a lot of nature scenes and while the plot really is strange at times, this is a fantasy so I'll give it a pass.
Let's hope some outlier genre hits it big THIS year so at least next year we'll have THAT instead :D
Then again... he keeps drawing that ripple symbol. I guess he'll turn out to be no. 3 now that no. 4 is out of the secret organisation, LOL.
Thanks again - if they post the rest of the schedule, it would also be great to know about it *wink*
2. The thing the SK new doctors complain about is that there are no more experienced/higher up doctors even being hired. Every hospital that can do it just takes in residents, works them like slaves and then just replaces them with newer residents instead of hiring them. Basically, if they can escape the consequences, they're treating them like low-paid interns for the terms of the residency and then don't offer them posts but pick other new people to do the same.
3. I can promise you that NO capitalism-involving politics will ever plan ahead for the good/sake of community, despite the pompous words. There are 1-st world countries where they disdain the idea of helping others in their society if they're on their worst time. Everything intended to help the poor and needy is seen as communist/socialist (they usually mix these up as if they were the same thing) and then there's a lot of propagandistic talks and news and whatnot condemning helping the poor or the less fortunate. IF this becomes law, there is NO surety there will be any drive to push the new students into the fields that actually lack personnel - they'll just say it's a free market and let them decide for themselves. And the main reason will be that the COUNTRY can't afford to pay for services intended for the less fortunate and so there will actually be no budget for those. So even if the country is aging and there's a growing need for doctors specialising in getriatrics' needs, there won't be a lot of such doctors coming up even if they triple the numbers. In the end, the overflow will still remain in the bigger cities, specialised in the best-paying fields, and THAT will (maybe) drive the prices in those fields lower OR drive the quality of what they're offering also lower (which is more probable. I mean - just considering plastic surgery, someone desperate enough might accept a low-quality job and pay a bit less than none at all. It's already happening in some place - including Europe.)
4. I love statistics. You know what the problem with statistics is? If you get 100 USD and I get none, that means we each have a mean/average value of 50 USD in our respective pockets. You should look instead at MEDIAN values of revenues for doctors and then maybe split it into fields of specialisation. You'll see beginners - which residents are - are the lowest paid (though probably better than just nurses obviously) and there are very few senior specialists who get the highest wages/revenue of any kind (include bonuses here etc) that skew the scale into very wrong numbers overall. Obviously someone can pick and choose which statistic they want to present in order to justify anything... But numbers can lie. Like, A LOT.
https://studyworkgrow.com/average-vs-median-salaries-whats-the-difference/
For a for-profit org, which most hospitals are part of, the most important thing is cost-saving. And they'll be extremely happy to report mean wages (that include CEOs and CFOs and whatever highest paid manager there is) instead of median wages, because then the emperor loses his clothes and the actual wages become starkly apparent.
If people strike, they don't do it because they like not being paid for the duration of the strike. But cost of living keeps going up and the earnings never ever keep pace. Corps and international orgs have been getting away with way too much and if you just look at how the gap between haves and have-nots has grown in JUST the past few years (starting around the time of the pandemic) you'll see that we the normal people have always been getting poorer despite all appearances, while the wealth of the world kept being sucked up to the very priviledged few (EXTREMELY few). That is not sustainable.
Oh, and want to hear some more (socialistic) drivel? YOU and I can do our parts to ~save the planet~ by being careful of consumption and energy saving and cleaning up after ourselves and recycling and whatnot and then ONE idiot who owns a private plane or yacht will nullify our complete sacrifice in the name of saving the planet in one or two flights (not long distance) or sailing to their own private island. If you think YOUR pressure on a politician will count more or at least the same with some one the actually priviledged's needs... *sigh*
I mean, I myself am drowning in serotonine-causing binge drama watching for a reason. Part of that reason is that, periodically, I dare to look at the state of the world and I shudder. If people keep fighting, with all means they can use, more power to them! I won't condemn them.
This is a class war and we're all in it, whether we like it or not. The fact that people who protest are seen as "already" priviledged doesn't point them as wrong - it points at everybody who's at the same level or under feeling inconvenienced and deciding that the people who are slightly better off are the enemies.
And that's why I'm going to go and binge-watch some more because enough reality for today.
I really wanted to see more supernatural dramas in 2024 *sigh*
Dammit.
And - reading comments from people who say they're striking in SK posted on some news articles about it - one fear that is also being pushed aside is the TYPE of new doctors the increased numbers will actually train... because some say (again, hearsay, so I don't know how true it is) that, since the most money appears to be in plastic surgery, a lot of these doctors will probably choose the lucrative side of the profession and so the remote rural communities that are underfunded already and have a general lack of medical professionals will NOT see any benefits of the law and are used as a pretext to push the law through.
I am a bit salty regarding news articles about anything having to do with people protesting work conditions and wages that do not keep up with the inflation, because I've been also in a strike and all the news sites took a lot of care NEVER to publish our demands and the reasons behind them but always present the strike as detrimental to the good of society. Strikes happen when you can't take it any more, and the fact that people already resign positions they've been studying for years and competed extremely hard to get should tell you these are not just some upset people who don't want more competition (they already have a job. Or used to.)
I hope they don't do the same with IB, because there's still half of the drama left to air...