Teishi Kajiya, a cardiologist and vice director of the Hyogo Brain and Heart Center in Himeji. Grueling work hours are discouraging people from entering the medical profession in Japan where the population is rapidly aging, foreign doctors are barred and a swelling public debt caps doctors’ salaries. (AFP)

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  eastokyo at 11:05 AM JST - 28th March

  I'll tell you what's exhausting - having to click on the above tab just to see the quote of the day.

  This labor shortage will continue and Japan will plunge into the fiery depths of hell.

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  usaexpat at 12:17 AM JST - 29th March

  My wife's uncle is a bone specialist and runs his own clinic. In no circumstance does he work 36 hours straight. I think the shortage is somewhat based on doctors like him who have realised that the key to having balance in their life is staying out of the big hospitals

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