Even though doctors say they're lacking the absolute numbers, they're protective of their turf and don't want masses of nurses and others taking up their business. Fundamentally, you're touching on something deeply political in Japan.
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James Kondo, president and vice chairman of Health Policy Institute, Japan, a Tokyo-based health care think tank, on why Japanese hospitals deny care to one in six ambulatory call patients. He says the medical hierarchy needs to be shaken up. (Time)
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hoserfella
Pretty much sums up the way Japan as a country operates. Scratch the surface and find that the country as a whole exists on it's corruption
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jonnyboy
nothing in japan is more important than maintaining status, the existing social hierarchy. it seems that in other parts of the world doctors are respected members of society due to their socially important and demanding role, whereas in japan it seems more to do with their high status and social clout
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