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Taiwan ranks No. 218 in World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek

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n Taiwan ranks No.99 in best hospital list (2025) by Newsweek, Statista

World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025 by Newsweek, Statista a survey on 28 countries newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-smart-hospitals-2025
world rank	hospital	country
10	Sheba Medical center	Israel
18	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
22	Singapore General Hospital	Singapore
23	The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
30	Tan Tock Seng Hospital	Singapore
39	Fortis Memorial Research Institute	India
45	Gleneagles Hospital	Singapore
57	Kyoto Univ. Hospital	Japan
60	Seoul National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
65	Asan Medical center	S. Korea
77	National Univ. Hospital	Singapore
85	Keio University Hospital	Japan
94	Wooridul Spine Hospital	S. Korea
96	Seoul National University - Bundang Hospital	S. Korea
98	Ajou University Hospital	S. Korea
99	Taichung Veterans General Hospital	Taiwan
ps: survey-studies not including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, etc

n comparison among main countries in Asia

World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025 by Newsweek
Asia's rank	country	number of top 100 hospitals
1	S. Korea	6 (No. 18, 60, 65, 94, 96,98)
2	Singapore	4 (No.22, 30, 45, 77)
3	Japan	3 (No. 23, 57, 85)
4	Israel	1 (No.10)
5	India	1 (No. 39)
6	Taiwan	1 (No.99)

n Taiwan's hospitals enter top 350

World's Best Smart Hospitals 2025 by Newsweek
臺中榮總	Taichung Veterans General Hospital
中國醫大醫院	China Medical Univ. Hospital
高雄長庚	Kaohsiung Chang Gung Mem. Hospital
高雄榮總	Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital
林口長庚	Linkou Chang Gung Mem. Hospital
成大醫院	National Cheng Kung Univ. Hospital
台大醫院	National Taiwan Univ. Hospital
臺北榮總	Taipei Veterans General Hospital

pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Yandex Russia at 2024-12-24, 2024-8-8, 2024-2-28, 2024-1-15, 2024-1-1, 2023-11-13, 2023-10-5, 2023-8-25, 2023-8-8, 2023-6-24, 2023-5-1, 2023-4-28, 2023-3-16, 2023-3-17, 2022-6-30, 2022-6-12, 2022-5-27, 2022-4-22, 2022-3-11, 2022-2-16, 2022-1-23, 2021-12-30, 2021-11-12, 2021-10-27, 2021-10-14, 2021-9-29, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29

pic. : This websites group was ranked No.1 on Yandex of Russia by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" test at 2024-12-24, 2024-1-1, 2023-10-5, 2023-8-25, 2023-8-8, 2023-6-24, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-10-15, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-16; No.2 at 2023-11-13, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17; No.2 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on Yandex, 2024-8-8, 2024-5-2

n Taiwan's physicians and medical system

♦ Statista (2024-9-26): As of the end of 2023, there were about 54,016 physicians registered in Taiwan.
♦ Google AI Overview: larger hospitals can be overcrowded and charge higher co-payments. Resident physicians in Taiwan earn a salary of NT$65,798 to $78,490 in their first five years of service. Physicians in Taiwan can work long hours to retain patients. To increase their income, some physicians develop procedural skills like minor cosmetic surgery or platelet rich plasma injection, which are not covered by insurance.

♦ Council on Foreign Relations, 2024-2-27: Taiwan's healthcare system, despite its affordability and accessibility, is financially unsustainable, further exacerbated by a rapidly aging population. The three parties will need to agree on how to secure the necessary financial and labor resources.

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n Taiwan's hospital in 2024 Newsweek & Statista "World's Best Hospitals"

World's Best Hospitals 2024 by Newsweek comparison among Asia's countries newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-hospitals-2024
world rank	hospital	country
9	Sheba Medical center	Israel
11	Singapore General Hospital	Singapore
18	The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
22	Asan Medical center	S. Korea
24	St. Luke's Int'l Hospital	Japan
34	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
40	Severance Hospital Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
43	Seoul National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
45	Kameda Medical Center	Japan
56	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	Australia
64	Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical center	Israel
69	Kyushu Univ. Hospital	Japan
79	National Univ. Hospital	Singapore
81	Seoul National Univ. - Bundang Hospital	S. Korea
86	Nagoya Univ. Hospital	Japan
88	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health & medicine	Japan
94	Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
96	Kyoto Univ. Hospital	Japan
97	The Alfred	Australia
102	Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville	Australia
104	The Catholic Univ. Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital	S. Korea
110	Tan Tock Seng Hospital	Singapore
111	Keio Univ. Hospital	Japan
113	All India Institute of Medical Science Delhi	India
116	Mount Elizabeth - Orchard	Singapore
120	Ajou Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
130	Bumrungrad Int'l Hospital	Thailand
134	Royal North Shore Hospital	Australia
148	Inha Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
152	Kangnuk Samsung Hospital	S. Korea
156	Changi General (CGH)	Singapore
158	Rabin Medical Center	Israel
160	Korea Univ. Anam Hospital	S. Korea
166	Medanta The Medicity	India
167	Gleneagles Hospital	Singapore
168	Toranomon Hospital	Japan
170	The Cathilic Univ. Korea Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital	S. Korea
172	Osaka Univ. Hospital	Japan
177	Kurashiki Central Hospital	Japan
186	Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi	UAE
188	Juntendo Univ. Hospital	Japan
189	St Vincent's Hospital Fitzroy	Australia
201	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	Australia
206	Hokkaido Univ. Hospital	Japan
208	KyungHee Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
212	Japanese Red Cross Medical center	Japan
214	Chung-Ang Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
218	Taipei Veterans General 台北榮總	Taiwan 台灣
222	Konkuk Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
223	Gleneagles Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
224	Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital	Japan
225	Ewha Womans Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
229	King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH&RC)	Saudi Arabia
233	Sunway Medical Center	Malaysia
235	Daegu Catholic Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
246	PGIMER - Postgraduate Institute Medical Education and Research	India
score is based on an online survey of more than 85,000 medical experts and public data from post-hospitalization patient surveys on their general satisfaction. The score also considers metrics on things like hygiene and patient/doctor ratio as well as a Statista survey on whether hospitals use Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

comparison among Asian countries
Country/Ranks	No.1~100	No.101~200	No.201~250	Total
Japan	7	5	3	15
S. Korea	6	6	5	17
Israel	2	1		3
Singapore	2	4		6
Australia	2	4		6
India		2	1	3
Thailand		1		1
UAE		1		1
Malaysia			2	2
Taiwan 台灣			1	1
Saudi Arabia			1	1
Total	19	24	13	56
China, HK not included in survey in total, 11 Asian countries are under survey

pic. : No.2 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on Microsoft Bing , 2024-12-24, 2024-5-2 ; No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on Microsoft Bing , 2023-11-13, 2023-10-5, 2023-8-25, 2023-3-17, 2023-1-1, 2022-9-18, 2022-7-1, 2022-6-13, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-10-15, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-5-25, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 2-12-2021, 8-17-2020, 8-5-2020;

pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Microsoft Bing , 2024-5-2, 2023-11-13, 2023-10-5, 2023-5-1, 2023-3-26, 2023-1-1, 2022-7-21, 2022-7-1, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-5-31, 2021-5-25, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 2-12-2021

Newsweek 2024 top 25 Taiwan hospitals newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-hospitals-2024/taiwan
rank	hospitals	2024 score	2023 score, rank
1	Taipei Veterans General Hospital台北榮總	93.4%	97.05, No.2
2	NTU Hospital台大醫院	93.28	97.2%, No.1
3	Linkou Chang Gung Mem. 林口長庚	84.32	82.36, No.6
4	Taichung Veterans General 台中榮總	83.91	80.44, No.8
5	Kaoshiung Chang Gung Mem 高雄長庚	83.11	88.64
6	China Medical Univ. Hospital中國醫藥大學醫院	82.55	82.58
7	Mackay Mem. Hospital馬偕	81.30	78.62
8	National Cheng Kung Univ. Hospital成大	81.20	82.72
9	Kaohsiung Medical Univ. Chung-Ho Mem. Hospital高雄醫大	78.81	76.30, No.16
10	Taoyuan Chang Gung Mem. Hospital	78.78	77.95
11	Taipei Tzu Chi General Hospital - New Tpe新北慈濟	78.10	77.60
12	Taipei Chang Gung Mem. Hospital桃園長庚	77.90	80.76, No.7
13	Cathay General Hospital國泰醫院	77.69	79.16
14	Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital高雄榮總	77.33	78.97
15	Hualin Tzu Chi General Hospital花蓮慈濟	77.10	74.99, No.19
16	China Medical Univ. Beigang Hospital中國醫大北港分院	76.86	not top 20
17	Taipei Medical Univ. Hospital台北醫大	76.5	not top 20
18	NTU Hospital Yunlin台大雲林分院	75.94	not top 20
19	Far Eastern Mem. Hospital遠東	75.61	not top 20
20	Chung Shan Medical Univ. Hospital - Taichung中山醫大	75.30	75.58
21	Tri-Service General Hospital- Songshan三軍總醫	74.10	78.25, No.12
22	Taipei Municipal Wangfang Hospital萬芳	73.84	not top 20
23	Chi Mei Medical Center - Tainan奇美	73.69	76.61, No.15
24	Cathay General Hospital, Sijhih國泰分院	73.51	not top 20
25	Cathay General Hospital, Hsinchu國泰新竹	73.11	not top 20

World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2024 by Newsweek top hospitals - comparison among Asia's countries newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2024
Oncology
world rank	hospital	country
5	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
6	Asan Medical center	S. Korea
9	Seoul National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
14	Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	Australia
15	National Cancer Center Hospital	Japan
27	Severance Hospital Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
29	The Catholic Univ. Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospita	S. Korea
33	Cancer Research Ariake Hospital	Japan
39	National Cancer Center	S. Korea
53	National Cancer Center Hospital East	Japan
55	Keio Univ. Hospital	Japan
64	The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
68	National Cancer Center Singapore (NCCS)	Singapore
69	Seoul National Univ. - Bundang Hospital	S. Korea
70	Hokkaido Univ. Hospital	Japan
77	Kyoto Univ. Hospital	Japan
97	Shizuoka Cancer Center	Japan
105	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	Australia
110	Osaka Univ. Hospital	Japan
114	St. Luke's Int'l Hospital	Japan
120	Chonnam National Univ. - Hwasun Hospital	S. Korea
129	Tohoku Univ. Hospital	Japan
135	Tata Memorial Hospital	India
143	Okayama Univ. Hospital	Japan
147	National Hospital Organization Kyushu Cancer Center	Japan
148	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	Australia
150	Austin Hospital	Australia
151	Nagoya Univ. Hospital	Japan
152	Korea Cancer center Hospital	S. Korea
155	Kyushu Univ. Hospital	Japan
164	Changi General Hospital	Singapore
168	Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
181	Korea Univ. Guro Hospital	S. Korea
188	Chiba Univ. Hospital	Japan
189	Juntendo Univ. Hospital	Japan
194	Westmead Hospital	Australia
201	Apollo Hospital - Chennai	India
202	Ajou Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
204	Hadassah Medical Center Mount Scopus	Israel
205	Sheba Medical Center	Israel
206	All India Institute of Medical Sciences - Delhi	India
211	Osaka City Univ. Hospital	Japan
212	Konkuk Univ. Medical Canter	S. Korea
218	Kangbuk Samsung Hospital	S. Korea
234	National Univ. Hospital (NUH) / National U. Cancer Institute	Singapore
241	Hadassah Univ. Hospital - Ein Kerem	Israel
242	CSingapore General Hospital (SGH)	Singapore
243	Aichi Medical Univ. Hospital	Japan

Cardiology
world rank	hospital	country
14	National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center	Japan
33	Asan Medical center	S. Korea
39	Prince Charles Hospital	Australia
46	Sheba Medical Centre	Israel

Cardiac Surgery
world rank	hospital	country
12	The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
24	National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center	Japan
33	Sakakibara Heart Institute	Japan
41	Royal Melbourne Hospital - Parkville	Australia

Gastroenterology
world rank	hospital	country
5	Asan Medical Center	S. Korea
9	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
12	The Catholic Univ. Korea - Seoul St. Mary's Hospital	Japan
38	Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
41	Korea univ. - Anam Hospital	S. Korea
45	Sheba Medical Center	Israel
50	Seoul National univ. Hospital	S. Korea

Neurosurgery
world rank	hospital	country
14	Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
23	Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
33	Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
42	Sheba Medical Center	Israel
46	Kyoto Univ. Hospital	Japan

Pulmonology
world rank	hospital	country
28	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
32	Asan Medical Center	S. Korea
37	Seoul National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
38	Univ. Tokyo Hospital	Japan
41	Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
42	Inha Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
44	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Heath and medicine	Japan
48	Changi General Hospital (CGH)	Singapore

n news

♣ The China Times, CTV news, 2024-9-21: Many Taiwanese people petitioned for not having hospital beds; Taipei city councilor found many hospitals have beds, but lack of nursing staffs to take care of more patients. msn.com/zh-tw/health/other/醫院有床卻沒有護理師-北市聯醫人力短缺病患苦等無解/ar-AA1qVeyq

♣ United Daily (聯合報), 2024-8-23: Professor of Taipei Medical University: In 健康台灣推動委員會 meeting held by Taiwan Presidential Office, an expert (中經院院長) urged to take the property of the elderly to meet the needs of national insurance ；Those kind of thinking of taking advantage of elderly persons (啃老) has become the mainstream thinking among Taiwanese officials and national think tank. However, the spirit of health insurance is that the healthy people support the sick, and young people support elderly people. The government should think about how to increase the income of young people, instead of finding some way to make the elderly to cough up their limited money. udn.com/news/story/7339/8179879?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

楊哲銘／北醫大教授

♣ United Daily (聯合報), 2024-8-23: Professor of National Chung-Cheng University: Professional arrogance may ignore patients’ symptoms and lead to misdiagnosis / one of my friends described chest pain symptoms to the MD many times, but the Doctor simply attributed it to anxiety and did not conduct further examination; until she passed out one day and found Severe aortic stenosis causes arrhythmia (重度主動脈狹窄引發心律不整)。another one suffering from headaches and blurred vision for a long time have attended MD many times. Doctors mostly insisted that it was stress and did not recommend further examination; until one day she passed out and was diagnosed with brain tumor. Be brave enough to Actively ask questions and defend your right.

udn.com/news/story/7339/8179938?from=udn-relatednews_ch2

朱柔若／中正大學教授

♣ United Daily (聯合報), 2024-8-23Excessive health insurance packages squeezed frontline medical care. The new government intensified the issue .They refuse to invest more in the medical environment which caused the quality of medical care in Taiwan to decline. Those money officials claim saved actually are earned through the health of you and your loved ones

udn.com/news/story/7339/8179882

盧俊瑋／醫科助理教授

♦ China Times, 2024-7-19: The government does not dare to raise premiums to avoid losing the elections. Since benefits for drug-prices are cut almost every year, hospitals refuse to import higher-priced brand drugs, instead, generic drugs that are less effective. Due to global budget payment system, the more patients Doctors see, the more financial losses the hospital will suffer. Now all hospitals are faced with the problem of lacking of MDs in Internal medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Emergency departments. Medical students with good grades usually go to fields like Dermatology, medical Cosmetology, and Ophthalmology, which are high-paying and easy-going . chinatimes.com/opinion/20240719004686-262101?chdtv

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♦ United Daily (2024-6-5): Don't let patients become lambs to be slaughtered !!

At present, cell therapy and regenerative medicine are very Chaotic, and there is a disparity in medical information between doctors and patients. The government (Ministry of Health and Welfare) cannot shift the blame for failing to fulfill its responsibility for patient care. Regenerative medicine may become the most expensive and ineffective medical treatment in the history of Taiwan medicine udn.com/news/story/11674/8010191?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub11674_pulldownmenu_v2

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♦ FTV News (民視新聞), 2024-8-25: According to the Ministry of Labor (2022), the average monthly salary of Taiwan's physicians is NT 156,178 (about USD 5200); the average annual salary of physicians is NT 2,320,000 youtube.com/watch?v=_TFLw15CS9c TTV News (台視新聞), 2024-5-16: the monthly salary of many young attending physicians is about NT 100,000 youtube.com/watch?v=aokjvVAZ0kc

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♦ China Times, 2024-6-26: Many medical institutions in Taiwan have a long-standing problem of lacking nursing staffs. From the second half of last year, major hospitals had to close some beds to cope with the situation; A widely-known nursing home in northern Taiwan closed 50 beds, besides, there are issues of medical saline shortage. As CovID returns in Taiwan, our government reacts slowly and even is not willing to admit the issue - lacking of medical staffs and resources. chinatimes.com/opinion/20240626004474-262101?chdtv

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♦ The Liberty Times (自由時報), 2024-7-13: The Department of Pediatrics at National Taiwan University wanted to recruit 13 resident physicians this year, but only six were recruited. The attending physician therefore has to be on duty at the front line in person. This way going for a long time, the attending physician is also calling for resignation. Pediatrics physicians usually spend more time and efforts on treating children, but have same health insurance benefits as other physicians.◆talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1656242

nTaiwan ranks No. 249 in World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek and Statista in 2023
Newsweek: Among the hallmarks of great hospitals, however, are not just first-class care, first-class research and first-class innovation. The very best institutions also share another quality: consistency. The world's best hospitals consistently attract the best people and provide the best outcomes for patients as well as the most important new therapies and research.
　

World's Best Hospitals 2023 by Newsweek comparison among Asia's countries newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-hospitals-2023
Asia's rank	country	total number of top 250 hospitals
1	Japan	18
2	S. Korea	18
3	Australia	7
4	Singapore	5
5	Israel	3
6	India	3
7	Thailand	1
8	UAE	1
9	Taiwan	1
Asia's China, etc are not included in survey list - 28 countries
Taiwan's NTU Hospital ranks world no. 249, behind selected hospitals of Thai. and UAE

pic. : The website-group ranks No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on US Google at 2024-2-28, 2024-1-16, 2024-1-1, 2023-11-11, 2023-10-1, 2023-8-25, 2023-8-8, 2023-6-24, 2023-3-26, 2022-9-19, 2022-7-1, 2022-6-13, 2022-5-28, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-15, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-30, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-14, 2021-8-8, 2021-7-31, 2021-7-23, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-6-4, 2021-4-28, 2021-4-23, 2021-4-18, 2021-4-10, 2-14-2021, 3-8-2021; No.2 at 2024-8-8, 2021-10-28 ; among top ranks at 2023-1-1 ; top 3 "physicians in Taiwan" on US Google, 2023-3-17;

World's Best Hospitals 2023 by Newsweek comparison among Asia's countries newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-hospitals-2023
world rank	hospital	country
9	Singapore General Hospital	Singapore
11	Sheba Medical center	Israel
17	The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital	Japan
28	St. Luke's Int'l Hospital	Japan
29	Asan Medical center	S. Korea
40	Samsung Medical Center	S. Korea
47	Kameda Medical Center	Japan
49	Seoul National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
66	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	Australia
67	Severance Hospital Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
68	Kyushu Univ. Hospital	Japan
69	Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical center	Israel
73	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health & medicine	Japan
91	The Catholic Univ. Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital	S. Korea
93	Seoul National Univ. - Bundang Hospital	S. Korea
96	National Univ. Hospital	Singapore
98	The Alfred	Australia
105	Mount Elizabeth - Orchard	Singapore
108	Keio Univ. Hospital	Japan
112	Kyoto Univ. Hospital	Japan
118	Nagoya Univ. Hospital	Japan
119	Ajou Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
122	All India Institute of Medical Science Delhi	India
130	Tan Tock Seng Hospital	Singapore
133	Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei Univ.	S. Korea
135	Gleneagles Hospital	Singapore
140	Kangnuk Samsung Hospital	S. Korea
142	The Cathilic Univ. Korea Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital	S. Korea
144	Korea Univ. Anam Hospital	S. Korea
150	Royal North Shore Hospital	Australia
163	Medanta The Medicity	India
168	Kurashiki Central Hospital	Japan
175	Toranomon Hospital	Japan
178	Rabin Medical Center	Israel
181	Juntendo Univ. Hospital	Japan
182	Bumrungrad Int'l Hospital	Thailand
188	Royal Melbourne Hospital Parkville	Australia
190	Japanese Red Cross Medical center	Japan
190	Chung-Ang Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
192	Inha Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
196	Osaka Univ. Hospital	Japan
199	Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi	UAE
202	Hokkaido Univ. Hospital	Japan
202	Ewha Womans Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
207	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital	Australia
208	St Vincent's Hospital Fitzroy	Australia
212	Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital	Japan
222	Jikei Univ. Hospital	Japan
224	Gold Coast Univ. Hospital	Australia
229	KyungHee Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
233	Konkuk Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
242	Kyorin Univ. Hospital	Japan
243	Daegu Catholic Univ. Medical Center	S. Korea
246	Yokohama Municipal Citizen's Hospital	Japan
247	Chungnam National Univ. Hospital	S. Korea
249	National Taiwan Univ. Hospital	Taiwan
250	Apollo Hospital Chennai	India
Opinion - Why is Taiwan behind ? (1) United Daily (2023-3-14): The death rate of severe CovID patients in Taiwan is more than 85% udn.com/news/story/120940/7029331?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2 Taiwan got highest CovID death rate in Asia and entire world again and again. / "Medicine should be prescribed but not prescribed, medicine should be taken but not taken", bad record of "failure to administer CovID remedy/medicine in time". Bloomberg, 2021-7-25: Taiwan's medical care system is also run on a tight budget to keep costs affordable. Newsweek: These are challenging times for hospitals. COVID-19 put unprecedented stress on health systems. (2) Not patient-centered / not easy to register clinic, 2-5 minutes for clinic diagnosis, 7-10 waiting days in emergency room to be hospitalized, shortage of some excellent medicines and newest equipments, the number of MDs per 10000 is very low, turnover rate of the nurses is high, some chronic disease items' score very low, poor internationalization, national health insurance issue, not to value privacy, medical disputes, not enough resource for rural patients and the disadvantaged... for details pls. read the web-pages below

WHO - number of MDs per 10,000 population
country	MD/10000	country	MD/10000	country	MD/10000
Sweden	70.616	Iceland	38.914	Ukraine (2014)	29.898
Belgium (2021)	62.6	Mongolia(2018)	38.594	UAE	28.8
Norway	51.684	Nederland	38.4	Saudi Arabia	27.885
Spain	45.8	Russia	38.271	Japan	26.141
Germany (2021)	45.2	N. Korea (2017)	36.709	S Korea	25.078
Finland	43.3	Israel	36.5	Qatar (2018)	25
Italy (2021)	41.3	US	35.55	Singapore(2019)	24.3
Australia	41.108	NZ(2021)	35.162	China	23.873
Ireland 40.622	40.622	France	33.2	Malaysia	22.281
Kazakhstan	40.277	UK(2021)	31.711	Taiwan	about 21.7
who.int/data/gho/data/indicators/indicator-details/GHO/medical-doctors-(per-10-000-population) data.who.int/indicators/i/217795A statistics 2020 (mostly)

Top 20 Taiwan's hospitals by Newsweek 2023 newsweek.com/rankings/worlds-best-hospitals-2023
Taiwan's rank	top 20 Taiwan's hospitals	score
1	NTU Hospital	97.2%
2	Taipei Veterans General Hospital	97.05
3	Kaoshiung Chang Gung Mem Hospital	88.64
4	National Cheng Hung Univ. Hospital	82.72
5	China Medical Univ. Hospital	82.58
6	Linkou Chang Gung Mem. Hospital	82.36
7	Taipei Chang Gung Mem. Hospital	80.76
8	Taichung Veterans Genral Hospital	80.44
9	Cathay General Hospital	79.16
10	Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital	78.97
11	Mackay Mem. Hospital	78.62
12	Tri-Service General Hospital- Songshan	78.25
13	Taoyuan Chang Gung Mem. Hospital	77.95
14	Taipei Tzu Chi General Hospital - New Tpe	77.60
15	Chi Mei Medical Center - Tainan	76.61
16	Kaohsiung Medical Univ. Chung-Ho Mem. Hospita;	76.30
17	Chung Shan Medical Univ. Hospital - Taichung	75.58
18	Taipei Municipal Wangfang Hospital	75.23
19	Hualin Tzu Chi General Hospital	74.99
20	Chiayi Chang Gung Mem. Hospital - Puzi	74.22

★ Taiwan's rankings in medical education

In Nature Index 2023, "Health Science" , National Taiwan University ranks No.32 among universities in Asia，behind China, S. Korea, Japan, Singapore etc. In Times Higher Education, "Medicine and Dentistry", National Taiwan University ranks No.152。Taiwan's Taipei Medical University ranks No. 401-500, Cheng-Kung University ranks No. 501-600 。In US News "Best Universities for Clinical Medicine", National Taiwan University ranks behind China, S. Korea, Japan, Singapore etc.

★ Taiwan's higher education rankings

In Times Higher Education 2024, National Taiwan University ranks behind Asian countries - China, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, S. Korea. In Quacquarelli Symonds，QS UK 2024, National Taiwan University ranks behind Asian countries - China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, S. Korea, Malaysia. In CWUR 2023 National Taiwan University ranks behind countries of Asia & Pacific, Japan, S. Korea, China, Australia, Israel, Singapore. In Nature Index 2023, National Taiwan University ranks No.208 behind China, Japan, Singapore, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, India. full text

CTS TV News (2024-1-16 華視資訊): The average age of obstetrician and gynecologist is so high that Taiwan may need some Doctors from East-South Asia. Furthermore, There are shortages of MDs in Internal Medicine(內科)、surgical(外科)、obstetrics and gynecology(婦產科)、Pediatrics(兒科)、Emergency (急診科). United Daily (2024-3-9): 聯合報 (2024-3-9): Due to the National Health Insurance, 200+ regional hospitals were closed, today's Taiwan medical systems look like a "M" shape. Now some more large hospitals are upgraded by the gov. to the medical center hospitals, which may further extrude small-size hospitals and it will be harder to put Hierarchic Care system into practice. udn.com/news/story/7339/7819075?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2 施壽全／馬偕醫院前院長

nPhysicians and medical personnel in Taiwan　

Statista (2024-9-26): As of the end of 2023, there were about 54,016 physicians registered in Taiwan.
　

Statista: Number of medical personnel in Taiwan as of 2022, by type, released in 2023 statista.com/statistics/946929/taiwan-number-of-medical-personnel-by-type/
medical type	number of personnel
Reg. nurses and professional nurses	185,778
Physicians	53,063
Pharmacists and assistant Pharmacists	36,336
Dentists	15,996
Medical technologists and technicians	10,400
Physical therapists and technicians, occupational therapists and technicians	14,121
Doctors of Chinese medicine	7,671
Dietians	3,588
Midwives and Reg. professional midwives	201

Statista: Number of medical personnel in Taiwan as of 2020, by type, Jan 27, 2022 statista.com/statistics/946929/taiwan-number-of-medical-personnel-by-type/
medical type	number of personnel
Reg. nurses and professional nurses	178,498
Physicians	51,045
Pharmacists and assistant Pharmacists	35,734
Dentists	15,429
Medical technologists and technicians	10,179
Physical therapists and technicians, occupational therapists and technicians	9,073
Doctors of Chinese medicine	7,302
Dietians	3,405
Midwives and Reg. professional midwives	192
Dental assistants	29
At the end of 2021, there were approximately 183.3 thousand registered and professional nurses employed in Taiwan

Statista: Num. of physicians in Taiwan from '12 to '22 https://www.statista.com/statistics/860217/taiwan-physician-number/
yr	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
number	40,938	41,965	42,961	44,006	44,849	46,356	47,471	49,542	51045	52175	53063
increase		1,027	996	1,045	843	1,507	1,115	2,071	1503	1130	888

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Statista: Number of medical personnel density in Taiwan from 2009 to 2019 Number of medical personnel per 10,000 inhabitants statista.com/statistics/324725/taiwan-medical-personnel-density/ published 2022-1-27
yr	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
number	101.02	104.12	107.75	110.78	113.7	115.88	119.41	122.84	127.18	132.64	138.41

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⊙ Taiwan's United Daily (2023-11-14): In recent years, there has been a massive exodus of nursing staff, with nearly 5,000 nurses every year, resulting in a serious shortage of manpower at the care site. However, the government has turned a blind eye to this and has placed a lot of risks and responsibilities on CovID front-line nurses, without paying their subsidies. Furthermore, in order to make up for the manpower gap of nursing staff, the national nursing examination (護理國考) has lowered the threshold; the proportion of more difficult subjects such as "Basic Medicine"(「基礎醫學」) has been reduced from 20% to 10%, regardless of the quality of medical care...

udn.com/news/story/7338/7571815?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

⊙ Taiwan's United Daily (2024-5-1): There is no penalty for those hospitals violating the official ratio of patients per nurse . udn.com/news/story/7339/7934560?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2

Yahoo (2023-11-20)

Taiwan News Formosa (2023-11-19)

medical personnel protest the government's expansion of of enrollment quotas in medical schools... (濫開學校招生名額，崩壞已經超飽和醫事人力，完全無視「總量管制原則」) tw.news.yahoo.com/黑十字運動-凱道的醫事人員怒火抗議-083200983.html

medical personnel are still overworked due to a staff shortage. Despite an expansion of enrollment quotas in medical schools' departments of traditional Chinese medicine, pharmacy, and nursing, as well as the lowering of the threshold for passing the national doctors exams, the demand is still greater than the supply. This has led to a medical workers’ protest on Sunday. The rally in front of the Presidential Office Building was jointly conducted by medical workers from five branches of medicine. .youtube.com/watch?v=hMada7WkFcU

⊙ Taiwan's United Daily (2023-11-13): There is a serious shortage of Medical-Doctor officers in the military troops. However, the National Defense Medical Center cannot increase enrollment because the medical field and educational circles are unwilling to relax the total quota control (不願放寬總量管制).
　

⊙ United Daily(2023-8-25): Taiwan's hospitals reject cancer patients being hospitalized under the status of National Health Insurance to avoid the authority turning down hospital's application for payment by the strategy of a sum and canceling after confirming. Many patients faced with the dilemma of being unable to afford expensive cancer medicines because the policy of private insurance companies does not cover out-of-pocket medicine expenses. udn.com/news/story/7266/7393297?from=redpush

The OECD Library : physicians per 1,000 people main countries in OECD OECD average: 3.6 oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b39949d7-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/b39949d7-en
rankings	country	Practising Doctors per 1,000 people (2019)
1	Greece	6.2
2	Austria	5.3
3	Portugal	5.3
4	Norway	5.0
6	Spain	4.4
7	Germany	4.4
8	Swiss	4.4
9	Sweden	4.3
10	Denmark	4.2
11	Russia	4.2
13	Italy	4.1
15	Australia	3.8
16	Nederland	3.7
20	New Zealand	3.4
	Israel	3.3
	France	3.2
	Belgium	3.2
	UK	3.0
	Canada	2.7
	USA	2.6
	Japan	2.5
	S. Korea	2.5
	China	2.2
	Turkey	2.0
	India	0.9
	Indonesia	0.5

The World Bank : physicians per 10,000 people main countries in Asia & Pacific 　 data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS
Asia's rankings	country	physicians per 10,000 people
1	Mongolia	39 (2018)
2	Australia	38 (2018)
3	N Korea	37 (2017)
4	New Zealand	34 (2018)
5	Saudi Arabia	26 (2018)
6	UAE	25 (2018)
7	Japan	25 (2018)
8	S. Korea	24 (2018)
9	Singapore	23 (2016)
10	China	20 (2017)
11	Malaysia	15 (2015)
12	India	9 (2019)
13	Thai	9 (2019)
14	Vietnam	8 (2016)
15	Myanmar	7 (2019)
16	Philippines	6 (2017)
17	Indonesia	5 (2019)
18	Lao PDR	4 (2017)

Wikipedia (2021-5-5) and Liberty Times (2020-1-6), Taiwan's doctor-to-population ratio (see pic. below) almost hit lowest in Asia. WEF<Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 9-4-2019): Taiwan's Health & Hygiene (including "physicians density" ) score 6.0 is worse than that of Japan, Korea, and Australia, Mongolia. According to WEF <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 4-6-2017), Taiwan's "Physician density" ranks world No. 65 (No. 57 in 2015's report).
CommonWealth, 2022-4-12: Taiwan has an average 21.7 physicians per 10,000 population, which lags far behind the median of 33.6 physicians for the OECD countries (only Turkey is behind Taiwan). In terms of healthcare's share of the national budget, which stands at 11 percent, behind the OECD average of 15 percent, which constricts the industry's growth potential...10- physicians per 10,000 inhabitantsdoes not even meet the lowest standard of the World Health Organization. english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3198#:~:text=Taiwan%20has%20an%20average%2021.7,physicians%20for%20the%20OECD%20countries.

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⊙ Lancet, 2023-6-24 : lots of arguments have emerged about applying artificial intelligence to medical education in Taiwan - whether quickly produced new doctors have sufficient humanity in clinical practice. thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00506-8/fulltext
⊙SKY News Australia, 2023-5-4: Australian student Alex Shorey has been fighting for his life after consuming rat poison in early April – the ingestion led to internal bleeding and organ failure. The 24-year-old's family raised over $200,000 dollars to charter a specialised medical evacuation which flew him from Taiwan to Brisbane where he was taken to hospital for further treatment. msn.com/en-au/news/other/poisoned-australian-student-returns-home-from-taiwan/ar-AA1aHCva NEWS Australia, 2023-5-4: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/queensland-student-alex-shorey-medically-evacuated-from-taiwan-after-being-poisoned-with-rat-poison/news-story/5464851d30c3808c356c2afa9d7c7fb0
⊙ DailyMail (UK), 2023-4-28: Young Australian student on his dream overseas exchange program is fighting for his life in Taiwan after eating food laced with rat poison. His Doctor father said: "He had been misdiagnosed in Taiwan with an immune disorder". Alex is at the Taipei Medical University Hospital ..."The medical services in Taiwan don't currently have the right treatments or drugs to stabilise his condition, Alex's condition has grown worse and he needs to be flown to the Royal Prince Albert Hospital in Sydney via a specialised medical flight retrieval service". dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12023841/Toowoomba-student-exchange-Taiwan-fighting-life-eating-food-laced-rat-poison.html

nCovID-19 in Taiwan　

New York Times, 2023-2-16 News briefing CovID death per 100,000 people since 2020; comparison among main Asian countries
Australia	Taiwan	S. Korea	Indonesia	Japan	New Zealand	Singapore	China (official count)
74	70	65	59	55	50	30	6
China's official toll includes only infected people who died in hospitals

New York Times, Feb. 23, 2023 12:12pm Taiwan's death rate still ranks world No.1 nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank	country	cases per 100,000	14 days changed	deaths per 100,000
1	Taiwan	67	-34%	0.25
6	Australia	10	-16	0.11
7	Japan	14	-54	0.10
23	NZ	24	-7	0.06
31	Hong Kong	-	-	0.04
35	S. Korea	20	-26	0.03
64	Malaysia	<1	-14	<0.01
about 170	Singapore	0	-100	-
about 200	China	-	-100	-
world No. 66 Thailand, No. 67 UAE, No. 68 Indonesia, 71 Pakistan, 72 India, 80 Bangladesh, 127 Cambodia, 133 Laos, 147 Macao

Taiwanese government said at 2023-2-6 that the pandemic of third wave started from middle Dec. 2022, the number of deaths and the curve is relatively smooth; however, Taiwan's deaths per 100,000 ranked No.1 among main Asia countries since Oct. 2022, and then jumped to world No.1 at Feb. 2023. Taiwanese government said (2023-2-17) the pandemic is ending, but the death rate at 2023-2-23 is still world No.1, cases per 100,000 ranks world No.2 (next to Nauru), according to New York Times.

According to New York Times (2023-2-6), Taiwan's CovID-19 death rate (deaths per 100,000) ranks world No.1. Taiwan's cases per 100,000 ranks world No.1. In accord with NY Times (2023-2-14), only 17 countries' "fully vaccinated" rate is higher than Taiwan's 87%.

New York Times, Feb. 6, 2023 nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank	country	Asia's rank	deaths per 100,000	Fully Vaccinated
1	Taiwan	1	0.26	87%
2	Finland		0.26	79
3	Sweden		0.23	74
4	Bermuda		0.22	75
5	Latvia		0.21	68
6	Japan	2	0.21	82
12	Australia	3	0.12	85
29	S. Korea	4	0.05	86
35	China	5	0.03	91
49	Macau	6	0.02	100
62	Philippines	7	0.01	68
71	NZ	8	<0.01	84

New York Times, Feb. 6, 2023 nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
world rank	country	cases per 100,000	14 days changed	deaths daily average	deaths per 100,000
1	Taiwan	111	+39%	63	0.26
4	Japan	32	-55	262.6	0.21
5	S.Korea	29	-43	27.7	0.05
7	NZ	23	-	0.3	<0.01
11	Australia	12	-23	30.4	0.12
19	Singapore	8	+26	0.1	<0.01
	China	1	-79	468.3	0.03
	world	3	-34%	2187	0.03

So it might not be vaccination issue. Taiwan had bad record of "failure to administer CovID remedy/medicine in time". Bloomberg, 2021-7-25: Taiwan's medical care system is also run on a tight budget to keep costs affordable. United Daily of Taiwan (2023-2-14): clinical doctors fear one of the reasons of increasing number of CovID deaths is quite a lot of patients have not taken oral antiviral pills such as Paxlovid. udn.com/news/story/120940/6969305?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2 United Daily (2023-2-13): "Medicine should be prescribed but not prescribed, medicine should be taken but not taken". United Daily (2023-2-23): Nearly 60% of Taiwanese aged 50+ have not vaccinated within 6 months. udn.com/news/story/120940/6989262?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2

OurWorldData

COVID-19 vaccine boosters administered per 100 people till Feb 4, 2023

ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-booster-doses-per-capita?country=SGP~OWID_WRL~TWN~KOR~HKG~JPN~AUS~CHN~FIN~SWE~BMU

Total number of vaccine booster doses administered, divided by the total population of the country. Booster doses are doses administered beyond those prescribed by the original vaccination protocol.

Japan ( 138+ ) > Taiwan( 100+) > Sweden (93+) > HK (92+)> S. Korea> Singapore> Finland (77+) > Australia (75+)> China (68+) > Nermuda

In accord with Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths (2022-12-26), Taiwan's "How long does it take the number of total confirmed deaths to double" ranks world No. 4 , only next to Macau, Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.

Global comparison: where are confirmed CovID-19 deaths increasing most rapidly? How long does it take the number of total confirmed deaths to double Taiwan ranks world No. 4 Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths 2022-12-26
location	how long does it take for the number total confirmed deaths to double	total confirmed deaths	daily new confirmed deaths
Macau	9	13	+0 new
Micronesia	102	58	+0 new
Marshall Islands	131	17	+0 new
Taiwan	170	15,099	+24 new
According to Oxford Univ., ourworldindata.org/covid-cases (2022-12-26), Taiwan's "daily new confirmed cases" ranks world No.4; Taiwan's "how long does it take for the number total confirmed cases to double" ranks world No. 9 (it takes 148 days to double)

New York Times (2022-11-15), Taiwan's CovID-19 deaths per 100,000 ranks last among main Asian countries. WSWS.org, 2022-12-1: In the past week alone, ... placing Taiwan in the top ten in the world for cases per million people. It also currently has the second-highest deaths per million. Total overall cases stand at 8,313,366 with 14,334 deaths, most occurring since April. wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/01/bqmc-d01.html According to New York Times (2022-10-25), Taiwan's CovID-19 cases per 100,000 and deaths per 100,000 both are the worst among main Asian countries.

The China Times, editorial (2022-11-23): Taiwan's CovID-19 case-fatality rate (確診致死率) in recent two weeks ranks world No.3, such a bad record lasts at least two weeks. chinatimes.com/opinion/20221123004522-262101?chdtv

The China Times (2022-10-26): Taiwan's confirmed cases per 1000,000 in last 7 days ranks world last. (chinatimes.com/opinion/20221025005192-262101?chdtv)
　

New York Times, 2022-11-15 Coronavirus World Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
country/region	Death daily per100,000	Deaths daily avg.
Taiwan	0.24	56.9
Hong Kong	0.13	10
New Zealand	0.1	5.1
S Korea	0.09	45.1
Japan	0.06	69.7
Australia	0.06	14.3
Malaysia	0.03	8.9
Indonesia	0.02	41.4
Philippines	0.02	17.4
Singapore	0.02	0.9
Thailand	<0.01	6
India	<0.01	4
Saudi Arabia	<0.01	2.1
Bangladesh	<0.01	0.4
Sri Lanka	<0.01	0.3
Pakistan	<0.01	0.3
Mongolia	<0.01	0.1
Myanmar	<0.01	0
UAE	-	0
Qatar	-	0
Nepal	-	0
Laos	-	0
Cambodia	-	0
Vietnam	-	0
China	-	0
Macau	-	0

New York Times, 2022-10-25 Coronavirus World Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
country/region	cases daily avg.	per100,000	Deaths daily avg.	Deaths per100,000
World	364,848	5	1,488.9	0.02
Taiwan	36,863	155	61.9	0.26
Singapore	5,941	104	1.7	0.03
Hong Kong	5,438	73	8.3	0.11
New Zealand	3,260	66	4.4	0.09
S Korea	23,025	45	16.9	0.03
Japan	34,409	27	57.3	0.05
Australia	4634	18	12.9	0.05
Qatar	471	17	0.1	<0.01
Malaysia	1932	6	3	<0.01
UAE	282	3	0.1	<0.01
Philippines	1541	1	37.9	0.04
Indonesia	2201	<1	18.6	<0.01
Saudi Arabia	228	<1	1.9	<0.01
Mongolia	21	<1	0	-
Vietnam	593	<1	0.4	<0.01
Thailand	374	<1	5.7	<0.01
Myanmar	195	<1	0.9	<0.01
Laos	12	<1	0	-
India	1760	<1	9.5	<0.01
Bangladesh	176	<1	1.0	<0.01
China	844	<1	0	-
SriLanka	9	<1	0.6	<0.01

Global comparison: where are confirmed CovID-19 deaths increasing most rapidly? How long does it take the number of total confirmed deaths to double Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths 2022-10-8
Asian country	days to double deaths	Asian country	days to double deaths
Taiwan	106	Sri Lanka	405
New Zealand	110	Philippines	412
Australia	149	Cambodia	426
S Korea	196	Myanmar	431
HK	204	Indonesia	441
Japan	225	Bangladesh	462
Laos	278	India	511
Singapore	292	China	955
Vietnam	349	Asia	481
Thai	374	world	527
Mongolia	380
Malaysia	397
1. Micronesia 38 days, 2 Marshall Island 51 days, 3 Macau 85 days, Taiwan ranks world No.4

new CovID-19 cases per 1M Oxford University , ourworldindata.org/covid-cases 2022-10-8
country	new cases per 1M	country	new cases per 1M
Taiwan	1.88K	Philippines	19.8
Singapore	840.28	Vietnam	9.93
HK	500.82	Thai	8.85
S Korea	453.83	India	1.94
NZ	277.1	China	0.66
Japan	265.1	Sri Lanka	0.49
Australia	202.5	Cambodia	0.31
Malaysia	48.27	Macau	0
Mongolia	24.15
Asia 26.62 , N America 71, Taiwan ranks world No.3, No.1 Micronesia 10.16K, No.2 Saint Helena 8.06K

◆ Nikkei Asia (Japan) , 2022-7-8: Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index: Taiwan, at 112th, is still grappling with tens of thousands of cases every day. The current wave has cost the island nearly 6,500 lives. ( Taiwan ranks last in Asia & Pacific )
◆ Bloomberg's CovID Resilience Ranking, 2022-6-29: But they've been unable to outrun omicron: Taiwan and Hong Kong both saw deaths spike as more virus circulated (bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/)

◆ Global Times, 2022-6-10: "The handling of outbreak also proved that Taiwan's medical and health facilities are inadequate and cannot take care of a large number of patients at the same time, which is completely inconsistent with Taiwan's claim that it has advanced medical and health infrastructure", "In any place where a public health crisis was so badly handled and people's lives were treated carelessly with no respect, the authorities should resign."

◆ United Daily 》editorial, 2022-9-6: The Covid wave is going to be fueled by the omicron BA.5 which was foreseen a month ago; however, Taiwan has not prepared at all. udn.com/news/story/7338/6591158?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

Statista, 2022-7-27: Coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases as of April 26, 2022, by country comparisons among main Asian countries statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/
countries	World ranks	cases in last 7 days	Death Rate
NZ Cook Islands	No.1	526	0.02
Bhutan	No.2	3317	0.03
New Zealand	No.5	45748	0.07
Singapore	No.8	16728	0.11
Australia	No.9	247199	0.12
S Korea	No.11	426645	0.13
Qatar	No.19	546	0.19
Mongolia	No.24	196	0.24
UAE	No.26	1459	0.26
Israel	No.26	21334	0.26
Laos	No.34	4515	0.36
Japan	No.38	244929	0.38
Vietnam	No.42	82453	0.41
Thailand	No.71	110385	0.6
China	No.74	179114	0.6
Malaysia	No.93	31317	0.8
Lebanon	No.105	651	0.9
Saudi Arabia	No.125	678	1.2
India	No.128	12503	1.21
Nepal	No.129	78	1.22
Taiwan	No.143	23976	1.39

　

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Statista, 2022-7-27: Coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate, in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases
as of April 26, 2022, by country Taiwan ranks No.143, behind NZ, Singapore, Australia, S Korea, Qatar, Mongolia, Israel, Laos, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, India, Nepal, etc statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Jul. 31 Taiwan ranks No. 79 , behind Cambodia, Vietnam, UAE, S. Korea, China, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Mongolia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, etc asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Japan-tumbles-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-as-infections-surge

Bloomberg's CovID Resilience Ranking, 2022-6-29 Taiwan ranks next to the last bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking 2022-5-27 Taiwan ranks the 3rd from the end bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/spanish.html

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking 2021-10-28 Taiwan's "3-month case fatality rate ", 7.7 %, ranks world worst bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking 2021-9-28 Taiwan's "3-month case fatality rate ", 13.4 %, ranks world worst bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Aug. 31 (released at 2022-9-9) Taiwan ranks No. 57 , behind Vietnam, Cambodia, UAE, S. Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Mongolia, China, Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, etc asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/China-slips-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-with-fresh-lockdowns

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◆ al jazeera, 2022-5-30: Taiwan is now battling its worst-ever outbreak as authorities report 70,000-90,000 cases each day. The fatalities have notably included the sudden deaths of several very young children, which many Taiwanese attribute to failures of the healthcare system. aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/30/brawl-breaks-out-in-taiwan-legislature

◆ China Times (中時), 2022-6-22: Such a high death rate absolutely is caused by the government's and hospitals' intentionally doing nothing (故意不作為)，the government used the name of "keeping medical capacity" to block some patients, ... the hospitals prefer confirmed mild CovID illness patients to max their profits, that's why so many serious cases died outside of the hospitals (政府以保障醫療量能之名，行減收病人之實，是罪魁禍首)。 brief: chinatimes.com/opinion/20220622004099-262104?chdtv 王任賢

nMeasuring Taiwan's health systems　

Lancet / Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services
Taiwan and some other countries of Asia & Pacific

Lancet, universal health coverage

Singapore	92	77	100	98	95	93	99	99	75	100	94	99	93	89	99	77	100	100	76	95	79	94	100	100
Japan	96	60	100	92	97	98	95	99	78	92	98	100	99	97	100	99	98	100	83	96	92	89	100	98
Korea	89	78	100	78	97	97	99	100	43	96	96	99	99	92	99	100	88	66	70	95	99	76	99	96
Australia	89	88	85	92	91	96	100	99	85	99	87	98	100	86	100	100	88	78	70	92	67	67	100	98
NZ	83	83	80	76	90	95	100	100	79	100	92	99	85	89	98	83	76	72	62	83	57	64	99	99
Kuwait	82	85	66	89	95	98	100	97	83	99	73	87	74	91	81	73	85	92	66	80	69	77	100	99
Qatar	80	71	69	59	99	93	100	99	67	97	72	85	69	91	78	75	97	49	58	97	60	95	100	97
Taiwan	79	96	84	75	100	98	100	99	46	99	88	93	89	97	91	90	82	44	55	55	89	73	99	97
Chn	70	96	70	75	98	99	99	90	32	97	72	91	60	88	86	66	43	80	61	41	86	65	98	98
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30750-9/fulltext Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services, 2020-10-17

Lancet / Health Access and Quality Index Taiwan and some other countries of Asia & Pacific
ranks	country	score
6	Australia	90
11	Japan	89
21	Singapore	86
21	New Zealand	86
21	South Korea	86
27	Qatar	85
32	Kuwait	82
37	Lebanon	80
40	Saudi Arabia	79
45	Taiwan	78
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)30818-8/fulltext 2017-7-15

Taiwan abused power in CovID-19 CovID-Omicron

Our World In Data. org (produced as a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford, ) Global comparison / where are confirmed deaths increasing most rapidly How long did it take for the number of total confirmed deaths to double; 2022-6-9
Taiwan	13 days	Thai	265	Qatar	423
Montserrat	13	Malaysia	279	Pakistan	428
Samoa	45	Sri Lanka	287	Lebanon	456
NZ	49	Japan	298	UAE	471
S. Korea	83	Philippines	299	Saudi Arab	624
Hong Kong	86	Cambodia	307	China	836
Australia	119	Myanmar	313	N. Korea	n/a
Laos	159	Indonesia	323
Singapore	194	Bangladesh	344
Vietnam	231	Nepal	385
Mongolia	265	India	392
world 415 days, Europe 434 days, high-income 471 days, N. America 473 ; ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths

◆ Guardian (UK), 2022-5-9: Once a zero-Covid poster child, Taiwan learns to live with the virus / experts predict... up to 16,000 dead. Rules and regulations change almost daily and incrementally. The death of a two-year-old boy last month highlighted communication failures exacerbated by Taiwan’s entrenched bureaucracy. hospital ...colleagues are understaffed and overworked, there is not enough protective equipment or backup to replace staff who go on leave because they caught the virus...and are still subject to a pandemic ban on health workers leaving the country. theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/once-a-zero-covid-poster-child-taiwan-learns-to-live-with-the-virus ◆ Nikkei Asia (Japan), 2022-5-5: Taiwan's ranking has plunged (down to No.94, behind most countries in Asia & Pacific, e.g., Japan, Korea, Singapore) in the latest edition of Nikkei's COVID-19 Recovery Index as the island transitions from a strict zero-virus strategy to living with the respiratory illness, even as infections surge. South Korea ranking soars as infections plunge and mobility curbs ease. newagebd.net, 2022-5-7: The index is maintained by Nikkei, Japan's leading business publication group that includes the Nikkei, Nikkei Asia, and the Financial Times (of London), assessing countries and regions on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Taiwan-China-tumble-in-Nikkei-COVID-Recovery-Index-amid-outbreaks

◆ Financial Times (UK) , 2022-4-18 (ft.com/content/dd4a3bd0-8973-4222-9eed-f9bfe4c37691): Ho Mei-shang, an adjunct fellow at Academia Sinica says It would be a failure if some people even did not get the chance to get into the health facilities. "We must preserve the capacity of our health system for those who need it.". ◆ United Daily, 2022-5-28: people usually get antiviral pills at the 4th or 5th day since becoming ill, increasing the probability that mild case worsens to moderate-severe case. udn.com/news/story/7338/6346575?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate
◆ Yahoo Taiwan, 2022-5-19: Nearly 80% of local CovID severe cases died this year. Experts believe that this reflects the problem of "failure to administer drugs in time " tw.news.yahoo.com/社會-重症近8成死亡-專家疑未能及時投藥-235256426.html
◆ United Daily, 2022-5-22: Since April, about 20% of the deceased died within 5 days of being diagnosed, and about 40% of the deceased died quickly after diagnosis or were not diagnosed at all. Now we must try our best to achieve early diagnosis and early drug administration udn.com/news/story/120940/6331358?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2 udn.com/news/story/120940/6346601 2022-5-28 ◆ United Daily, 2022-4-8, editorial: Taiwan's testing capacity and medication are obviously not good enough - Remdesivir only 16,000, Paxlovid 4,000+ available. udn.com/news/story/7338/6223069?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 ◆ China Times, editorial, 2022-4-8: on average, one out of 1000 people can have antiCovID medication. chinatimes.com/opinion/20220407004272-262101?chdtv

◆ China Times, 2022-4-19: Former medical chief 邱淑媞 : Instead of suggesting that the government expanding emergency quarantine rooms, or taking better anti-epidemic measures, Taiwan's medical Doctors ask politicians to push CovID-19 Omicron patients back home which might infect their families. Irresponsible politicians neither provide the public N95 nor instruct how to use HEPA... chinatimes.com/opinion/20220419004783-262104?chdtv

STATISTA 2022-5-5 Coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases as of April 26, 2022, by country
Characteristic (main country in Asia & Pacific)	Death rate
Indonesia	2.58
Philippines	1.63
Taiwan	1.39
India	1.21
Saudi Arabia	1.2
Malaysia	0.8
China	0.69
Thailand	0.67
Vietnam	0.41
Japan	0.38
Laos	0.36
UAE	0.26
Mongolia	0.24
Qatar	0.19
S. Korea	0.13
Australia	0.12
Singapore	0.11
New Zealand	0.07
NZ Cook islands	0.02
statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/

STATISTA, 2022-4-19 Coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases as of April 7, 2022, by country 　 Taiwan's death rate is highest among major countries in Asia & Pacific
country	Death rate(%)	Confirmed cases	number of deaths
Taiwan*	3.38	25,225	853
Indonesia	2.58	6,026,324	155,464
Sri Lanka	2.49	662,342	16,486
Cambodia	2.25	135,834	3,055
Pakistan	1.99	1,526,093	30,361
Philippines	1.61	3,680,244	59,422
Bangladesh	1.49	1,951,903	29,123
India	1.21	43,031,958	521,530
Saudi Arabia	1.2	751,404	9,053
China	0.88	1,495,380	13,098
Malaysia	0.82	4,280,591	35,192
Thailand	0.68	3,807,908	25,788
Vietnam	0.43	9,980,464	42,712
Japan	0.42	6,830,997	28,462
Laos	0.36	188,985	684
Australia	0.13	4,910,819	6,495
South Korea	0.12	14,778,405	18,381
Singapore	0.11	1,123,886	1,287
New Zealand	0.06	741,987	426
statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/ 2022-4-19

Oral antiviral pills for CovID
USA	Taiwan
CNBC, 2022-3-1: President Joe Biden said Americans will be able to get Covid antiviral pills (Paxlovid or Merck's molnupiravir) for free if they test positive at a pharmacy.	♣China Times, CTV news, 2022-4-27: oral antiviral pills for CovID are not enough ♣UDN, 2022-5-1: Americans can receive Paxlovid for free, by contrast, CDC asks Taiwanese to prepare medicines for curing a cold. udn.com/news/story/7339/6279548?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2 ♣TVBS, TTV, 2022-4-28: CovID Patient aged 60+ was not allowed to stay in hospital or have Paxlovid, and died in the next day news.ttv.com.tw/news/11104280010800I

In Bloomberg's "Winners and Losers" from a year of ranking Covid resilience (Nov. 25, 2021), Taiwan was ranked No.31 among 53 countries. Bloomberg, 2021-10-28: Taiwan's 3-month case-fatality rate is 7.7%, (2021-9-28: 13.4%) the worst worldwide, compared with Singapore's 0.2~0.3%, China 0%. Taiwan's case-fatality rate is 4.38% (JHU, 2022-2-17), compared with 5.015% (2021-12-28) and 5.17% (2021-10-28, coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/taiwan, Microsoft Bing statistics), and 4.9% (July 2021) which ranked 8th highest worldwide according to Johns Hopkins University, China Post, 2021-7-14. Statista : Taiwan's CovID-19 patient recovery rate (2020-1-22 ~ 2022-2-13) is 70.23%, Microsoft Bing statistics, 2022-2-14: recovered 0; The father of CoronaVirus in Taiwan, 賴明詔, said Singapore's medical tech. is better, and the culture is different. ( e.g., Financial Times, 2021-6-1: Another problem appears to be cultural...other public health experts have been discouraged from challenging Health Minister......The country ... was not prepared for a surge of infections). Guardian, 2021-6-7: Taiwan authorities hadn’t kept up with new scientific knowledge around virulent new strains... theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/a-victim-of-its-own-success-how-taiwan-failed-to-plan-for-a-major-covid-outbreak Statista, 2021-9-24: The number of physicians in Taiwan in 2020 is 51045, compared with 49542 in 2019. The PCR test capacity in Singapore is 5+ times of that in Taiwan (https://udn.com/news/story/121823/5493969?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2) , but Singapore's population is about 1/4 Taiwan's. FTV, 2021-7-12: Taiwan's CoVID high death rate is caused by inadequate medicine. UDN, 2021-6-7: It's hard and sometimes too late for CovID-19 patients to have Remdesivir. Bloomberg, 2021-7-25: Taiwan’s medical care system is run on a tight budget to keep costs affordable. Taipei Medical University professor 楊哲銘 comments Taiwan's medical quality is no longer good. Taiwan's former medical chief 楊志良 (chinatimes.com/opinion/20210804005734-262104?chdtv) criticizes that the health & medical system has been damaged. full text: CovID-19 in Taiwan There's no any Taiwan's hospitals selected in "World's Best Hospitals - Newsweek" in 2020 and 2021.

ABC News, 2021-11-11: Taiwan did not have any COVID-19 antibody drugs when the outbreak exploded in May. Taiwan had a limited stock of remdesivir, an anti-viral drug from Gilead, "There wasn’t enough, you could only get it if you applied for it from the central government,”. Further, it wasn't covered by the island's national health insurance scheme, making it affordable only for a small percent of the population. That antibody treatments would not have made a huge difference in the number of deaths given a culture of being cautious in prescribing medications. ref. to abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/taiwanese-families-covid-19-deaths-happen-81105354

No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on ecosia of Germany, 2022-10-21, 2022-7-21, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-5-31, 2021-5-25, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020

pic. : This websites group's ranked No.1 on Yahoo Taiwan by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" , 2022-7-21, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-5-31, 5- 19-2019. pic. : No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan"on Yahoo Taiwan, 2022-7-1,2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-10-15, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-6-16, 2021-5-31, 5- 19-2019.

pic. left: No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on ecosia of Germany, 2022-7-21, 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-5-31, 2021-5-25, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020 ; pic. right: No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on ecosia of Germany , 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-10-15, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-6-16, 2021-5-31;

pic. right: No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on SwissCows , 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-6-16, 2021-5-31; pic.: No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" SwissCows (Switzerland) , 2021-11-11, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-24, 2021-5-25, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020

pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Yahoo Japan (largest serach engine in Japan) , 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11; No.2 at 2022-4-23, 2022-3-12, 2021-11-12; No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" and "physicians in Taiwan" on Duckduckgo , 2022-2-17, 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-9-30, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-11

pic. : This websites group http://intlHumanRights.com was ranked No.1 on Yandex by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" test at 2022-7-20, 2022-6-30, 2022-6-11, 2022-5-27, 2022-4-22. 2022-3-11, 2022-2-16, 2022-1-23, 2021-12-30, 2021-11-12, 2021-10-27, 2021-10-14, 2021-9-29, 2021-9-6, 2021-8-20, 2021-8-7, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29

pic. : This websites group was ranked No.1 on Yandex of Russia by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" test at 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-11-11, 2021-10-28, 2021-10-15, 2021-7-18, 2021-7-11, 2021-6-29, 2021-6-16; No.2 at 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17

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pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on US Yahoo serach engine , 2022-1-24, 2021-12-31, 2021-7-18 ; No.2 at 2022-3-12, 2022-2-17, 2021-8-20

pic. : This websites group was ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" test at 2022-6-30, 2022-6-11, 2022-5-27, 2022-4-22, 2022-3-11, 2022-2-16, 2022-1-23, 2021-12-30, 2021-11-12, 2021-10-14, 2021-9-29, 2021-9-5, 2021-8-19, 2021-7-17, 2021-6-28, 2021-4-28, 2021-4-23, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021

pic. : No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on US Yahoo serach engine , 2021-7-18; No.2 at 2021-8-20

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Some government's research projects such as 「2019年西醫師人力發展估計畫期末報告」,「衛生福利部104年度科技研究計畫」by Dr. Chao A. Hsiung, 熊昭 conclude: the supply shortage pf physicians (M.D.) would be possible, given that the number of regional hospitals increasing one per year till end of 2020, as for other scenarios, supply exceeds demand. The Liberty Times (opinion, 12-22-2020, https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1420360王宏育) notes that, on average, one medical Doctor is for 250- patients in Taipei city, 500- patients in Taiwan, besides, about 1500 Doctors graduate from medical school in each year, Taiwan's current problem are (1) the more Doctors, the heavier burden to insurance system, (2) inequality ― the underprivileged minority in remote places needs better medical care. In contrast, according to WEF<Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 9-4-2019), Taiwan's Health & Hygiene (including "physicians density" ) score 6.0 is worse than that of No.16 Japan, No. 17 Korea, and Australia, Mongolia. According to WEF<Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 4-6-2017), Taiwan's "Physician density" ranks pretty bad ― world No. 65 (No. 57 in 2015's report).

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According to Wikipedia (2021-5-5) and Liberty Times (2020-1-6), Taiwan's doctor-to-population ratio (see pic. below) almost hit lowest in Asia, behind Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam...even Myanmar, Doctor visits about 2 to 5 minutes per patient. Taiwan also suffers a shortage of nurses. For budget factor, Taiwan's system has no regard for faculties of risk (surgery, internal medicine, gynaecology, pediatrics, emergency), which affects the medicine, operation and diagnostic tools (X-ray vs. MRI) prescribed. The government said (LTN, 2020-1-6) the upper limit, 1,300, of new Doctors in each year will be reevaluated. Scholar 鄭英耀 criticized the big imbalance of medical resource between Taipei and Kaohsiung, TaiTung, PinTung, remote places, mountains, which should be improved urgently. As for other indexes, Taiwan loses Hong Kong, Macau (China), Singapore, S. Korea etc in indexes such as Life Expectancy at birth, Death per 1,000 Population, and Health-Care Cost, etc (see pic. below). Taiwan was not included in top 100 "best healthcare in the world, 2021" by world population review (worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-healthcare-in-the-world). None of Taiwan's hospitals were selected in Newsweek's "World Best Hospitals 2020", but many hospitals in Asia's Singapore, Japan, South Korea, India etc were included in top 100 (see pic. below). Taiwan's high education was ranked around No. 8 ~ No. 10 among Asian & Pacific countries in Nature Index (2020), Times Higher Education-World University Rank (2021), Quacquarelli Symonds UK (2021) full text , etc. Apple Daily (6-30-2018) notes Taiwan's only pride left, health insurance, includes no preventive health care and health promotion, and will worsen within next 10 years for political factors. Apple Daily (6-30-2018) pointed out Taiwan's only pride left, health insurance, includes no preventive health care and health promotion, and will worsen within next 10 years for political factors.

World's Best Hospitals 2022 newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2022
world rank	country Asia	hospital
No.12	Singapore	Singapore General Hospital
No.13	Japan	The University of Tokyo Hospital
23	Japan	St. Luke's International Hospital
30	S. Korea	Asan Medical Center
43	S. Korea	Samsung Medical Center
46	Japan	Kameda Medical Center
55	S. Korea	Seoul National University Hospital
70	S. Korea	Severance Hospital - Yonsei University
76	Japan	Kyushu University Hospital
78	Japan	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine
87	S. Korea	Catholic Univ. of Korea - Seoul St. Mary
89	S. Korea	Seoul National University - Bundang Hospital
98	Singapore	National Univ, Hospital
number of selected hospitals in top 100 list - S. Korea : 6; Japan: 5 ; Singapore: 2

World's Best Hospitals 2021 www.newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2021
world rank	country	hospital
No.8	Singapore	Singapore General Hospital
No.16	Japan	The University of Tokyo Hospital
18	Japan	St. Luke's International Hospital
34	S. Korea	Asan Medical Center
42	S. Korea	Seoul National University Hospital
43	Japan	Kameda Medical Center
62	Japan	Kyushu University Hospital
71	Japan	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine
73	S. Korea	Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine
76	S. Korea	Severance Hospital - Yonsei University
84	Japan	Kyoto University Hospital
87	S. Korea	Seoul National University - Bundang Hospital
91	Japan	Kurashiki Central Hospital
97	S. Korea	Korea University - Anam Hospital
number of selected hospitals in top 100 list - Japan: 7 ; S. Korea : 6; Singapore: 1
101-200	S. Korea	6
101-200	India	2 All India Institute of Medical Sciences - Delhi, Medanta The Medicity
101-200	Thailand	1 Bumrungrad International Hospital
101-200	Singapore	2 Gleneagles Hospital, National University Hospital
101-200	Japan	10
total number of selected hospitals - Japan: 17 ; S. Korea : 12 ; Singapore: 3; India: 2; Thai: 1

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ref to Wikipedia : physicians density in Asia			Newsweek: World Best Hospitals 2020
Asia's rankings	country	physicians per 10,000 people	global rankings	country	hospitals
1	Qatar	77.4	8	Singapore	Singapore General Hospital
2	N Korea	33	16	Japan	St Luke's Int'l Hospital
3	Australia	32.7	18	Japan	The U of Tokyo Hospital
4	Lebanon	32	28	Australia	Royal Melbourne Hospital
5	Mongolia	28.4	31	Singapore	National Univ Hospital
6	New Zealand	27.4	36	Australia	Alfred Hospital
7	Jordan	25.6	42	S. Korea	Samsung Medical Center
8	UAE	25.3	45	Japan	Kyoto Univ Hospital
9	Saudi Arabia	24.9	50-100	India	All India Institute of Medical Sciences
10	Japan	23		Japan	Kameda Medical Center
11	Korea	21.4		S. Korea	Korea Univ Anam Hospital
12	Singapore	19.5		Japan	Kurashiki Center Hospital
13	China	14.9		Japan	Kyushu Univ Hospital
14	Malaysia	12		Japan	Osaka Univ Hospital
15	Philippines	12		Australia	Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
16	Vietnam	11.9		Australia	Royal prince Alfred Hospital
17	Iran	9		S. Korea	Seoul National Univ - Bundang Hospital
18	Pakistan	8.3		S. Korea	Seoul National Univ Hospital
19	Indonesia	8		S. Korea	Severance Hospital
20	India	7		S. Korea	The Catholic Univ of Korea - St. Mary's Hospital
21	Myanmar	6.1	table. above: newsweek.com/best-hospitals-2020 　 table left: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_physicians , data: 2007-2013 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Taiwan 2021-5-5 　 talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1343896 Liberty Times, 2020-1-6 talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1343897 talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1343895
22	Iraq	6.1
23	Thai	3.9
24	Laos	1.8
25	Cambodia	1.7

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Doctors per 10,000 people in Taiwan
	Taipei	Southern and Eastern Taiwan (Kaohsiung, PinTung, TaiTung, PonHo), remote places
physicians (內科醫師)	5.01	2.12
surgeon (外科醫師)	1.77	0.82
Pediatrics (小兒科)	1.11	0.46
Obstetrics & Gynecology (婦產)	0.86	0.42
Accident & Emergency (急診)	0.82	0.47
Liberty Times, 2020-1-6;talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1343896

Health Care Costs By Country 2021				World population Data Sheet, PRB 2020-7-10
Global Rankings	Country	Global Rankings	Country	Country	Life Expectancy at birth	L.Expectancy (Male)	L.Expectancy (Female)	Death per 1000 population
1	China	27	Myanmar	China HK	85	82	88	6
2	India	28	South Korea	Macau	84	81	87	3
4	Indonesia	36	Iraq	Japan	84	81	87	11
5	Pakistan	41	Saudi Arabia	Singapore	83	81	85	5
8	Bangladesh	45	Malaysia	S Korea	83	80	86	6
11	Japan	49	Nepal	Taiwan	80	77	84	7
13	Philippines	54	North Korea
15	Vietnam	57	Taiwan	worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-costs-by-country worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/best-healthcare-in-the-world 2021 prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/letter-booklet-2020-world-population.pdf
18	Iran	58	Sri Lanka
20	Thailand	71	Cambodia

According to professor 林鴻志 on Apple Daily (2021-5-8, tw.appledaily.com/forum/20210508/3DJUH6VA2ZEKDEIOXXCAHEER4E/ ), Taiwan's neonatal mortality rate is ranked at latter part of OECD countries, top 5 death causes are congenital anomaly chromosome abnormalities, respiratory diseases, PNM, Perinatal mortality, illness related to fetal growth & gestation, accidents and perinatal infection. The government needs to improve national insurance coverage, on such as a well-trained and licensed Doctor should be on the site when a child was born, to decrease the possibility of complication. The statistics by CIA Factbook and Wikipedia show Taiwan's Infant Mortality ranks world No. 41 and is behind countries of Asia & Pacific like Japan, Singapore, HK, S. Korea, Australia, Macau and NZ in 2020 as well as in 2018. (see table below)
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Infant mortality (deaths/1,000 live births) – 2018 and 2020 estimates

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates

rankings

country

death/1,000 live births(2020)

death/1,000 live births (2018)

Doctors per 10,000 people in Taiwan
	Taipei	Southern and Eastern Taiwan (Kaohsiung, PinTung, TaiTung, PonHo), remote places
physicians	5.01	2.12
surgeon	1.77	0.82
Pediatrics	1.11	0.46
Obstetrics & Gynecology	0.86	0.42
Accident & Emergency	0.82	0.47
Liberty Times, 2020-1-6; talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1343896

1 (2)

Japan

1.9

2.0

2 (5)

Singapore

2.3

3 (12)

Hong Kong

2.7

4 (13)

S. Korea

3.0

5 (14)

Australia

3.1

4.2

5 (15)

Macau

3.1

6 (30)

3.5

4.1

7 (41)

Taiwan

4.2

4.3

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Taiwan only ranks world 45th position in Lancet's Healthcare Access and Quality Index released in 2017 (based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study, 2015), some chronic disease items got very low scores, e.g., Leukemia score 49, Kidney disease 50, Gallbladder & biliary 57, Hypertensive Heart Disease 60, diabetes mellitus 58, etc. But, according to Lancet's Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index released at May 23, 2018, from 1990 to 2016, 186 of 195 countries and territories significantly increased their HAQ Index score, South Korea, Taiwan (Province of China), and Cyprus recorded the largest improvements among high-SDI countries. Taiwan's HAQ is still behind other Asia & Pacific countries, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and USA.

Lancet's national or territory estimates of the HAQ Index
yr.	2016	2000
Australia	95.9	90.4
Japan	94.1	86.9
New Zealand	92.4	87.0
Singapore	90.6	79.7
S Korea	90.3	74.4
USA	88.7	86.8
Taiwan	85.4	71.8

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http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30818-8.pdf

In Lancet, Jun. 2018, Taiwan's NM skin cancer (20) , congenital heart (69 ), chronic kidney (55) , Diabetes (60 ), gallbladder ( 64 ), hypertensive HD (61), stroke (63) , Lower respiratory infections (LRIs), peptic ulcer, got low scores, but Hernia,Diphtheria, Tetanu, URls , Maternal disorders, leukemia, chronic respiratory got excellent score。In lancet healthcare access and quality index (Jun. 2018), Taiwan is behind some other countries of Asia and Pacific, Australia, Japan, NZ, Singapore, Korea, Lebanon。

Besides, Apple Daily (2021-4-23) points out that the neurology (taking care of the most number of Persons with Disabilities) and its patients have been often ignored by government and national insurance system. ( tw.appledaily.com/forum/20210423/DMJGXHAOSBGO5J5KUNRFL5MVSA/ )

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AIT (American de facto embassy to Taiwan, ait.org.tw/u-s-citizen-services/doctors/) made some comments about Taiwan's medical system : (1) huge numbers of physicians in large hospitals have received training abroad – most of them in the U.S. (2) In most Taiwanese emergency rooms, patients lying on gurneys crowded everywhere – sometimes down the hall and out the door (3) Hospital based outpatient clinics differ dramatically from Western notions of privacy and the doctor-patient relationship (4) In some instances, the ambulances are short of trained technicians or/and medical equipments......

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As for CovID-19 , in Bloomberg's CovID-19 Resilience Ranking (2021-6-28), Taiwan plunges into the bottom half of the Ranking , accentuated by a lagging vaccination drive and a resurgent outbreak; compared with the same list No. 4 in April, and No. 15 in May 2021. Taiwan's death rate is double global average. Taiwan's recovery rate is much worse than that of other major countries of Asia & Pacific. According to CovID-19 Taiwan deaths - Google Search, 2021-5-27, Singapore 99.1%, Hong Kong 97.6%, China 94.5%, Korea 92.75%, Japan 88.9%, (pic. below). Media reports (UDN, 2021-6-7) Taiwanese patients in serious situation waiting for about one week but failed to get Remdesivir, a specific remedy for cure coronavirus, in spite of that CovID headquarter declares Remdesivir in stock is enough. In short, the stock is enough because they don't give you. (udn.com/news/story/7339/5513808?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2)

China Times, editorial, 2021-6-9: The medicine for patients is not enough which made high death rate and high number of severe CovID disease.

chinatimes.com/opinion/20210608005991-262101?chdtv CTV news, 2021-6-9: In 2020, only 1 hospital, NTUH, can use Remdesivir, a specific remedy for CovID-19 patients, in earlier this year, all hospitals need CDC's approval (was rejected quite often) and usually 8 ~ 12 hours for patients to use it, sometimes it's too late to save lives. CTV news, 2021-6-30, 19:11: CovID patient in Ministry of Health's PingTung Hospital got nothing but antipyretic, cough medicine. Besides, Taiwan did not use Monoclonal antibody in the first place to save patients. Will Taiwan's national Insurance system treat patients with other critical diseases like this ? Taipei Medical University professor 楊哲銘 says "we should no more think Taiwan's medical quality is quite good" (udn.com/news/story/7339/5513808?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2). Global Times criticizes "Taiwan authorities have no intention or power to fight the epidemic at all.", "Taiwan's COVID-19 fight has been a mess and the Taiwan authorities can only play tricks to make up for their mistakes". globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225525.shtml globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225540.shtml (ps: they regard politics more). China Times, 2021-6-26: some medical expert's critiques lead to being "horror attack" by internet army. No wonder some experts might doubt Taiwan's pride - national insurance system, treats money more than its nationals' health and lives.

The lawmaker blasted (2021-6-9 news) what color the Health minister's heart is ! To learn further details about CovID-19 in Taiwan

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Bloomberg, Nov. 25, 2021 "Winners and Losers" from a year of ranking Covid resilience Pandemic MVPs - Only 7 places never fell into the bottom half of the ranking
world rank	country of Asia & Pacific	Asia's rank
4/53	U.A.E.	1
6	S. Korea	2
8	Mainland China	3
9	Hong Kong	4
10	Saudi Arabia	5
12	Japan	6
13	Australia	7
17	New Zealand	8
20	Singapore	9
30	Pakistan	10
31	Taiwan	11
32	Bangladesh	12
moneyweb.co.za/news/international/winners-and-losers-from-a-year-of-ranking-covid-resilience/ Taiwan successfully eliminated and kept out Covid in the first year , now it is in the bottom half among 53 countries

TAIWAN VS. USA, Singapore, Israel
The US	Singapore	Israel	Taiwan
warns Americans over 60... not vaccinated, are at extreme risk. (New York Times 2021-8-24)	Singapore launched a campaign to persuade elderly vaccine holdouts	In Israel, aged 60 are first priority group, but in Taiwan they are the 10th (say last) priority	● Taiwan CDC (2021-9-2): Plenty of opportunities were offered for older populations, now the opportunities will be moved to groups younger. But the truth is millions of older adults kept awaiting their first BNT or Moderna shot from beginning.
￭ NY Times, 2021-8-23: Critics say Taiwanese worry local vaccine which effectiveness and safety have not been proved ￭ Lots of local critiques against Taiwan's harboring local vaccine

Taiwan lacks vaccines R&D, and can't have excellent vaccines from the west with schedule behind 60~70 countries till Feb. New York Times, 3-14-2021: amid vaccine campaigns elsewhere. Taiwan officials have been slow to procure and distribute vaccines ... China Times 2021-5-16: The number of Taipei's negative-pressure beds available is only 51 since CovID-19 major outbreak about 3 days ago. United Daily, 2021-5-18, editorial (udn.com/news/story/7338/5465373?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2) : some Corona-virus infected patients can not have any ambulance for 2 days, Taipei gov. said all hospital-wards are full. Next TV news, 2021-5-19: Taiwan's best hospital NTUH urges infected patients not to come its emergency room in that the capacity is full. Some hospitals rejecting CovID patient leads to death ( e.g., UDN, 2021-5-19, udn.com/news/story/120940/5468346, TTV news youtube.com/watch?v=3i8D-p-aiKQ ps: the gov. denied) Many infected patients were asked to stay at home and have antipyetics to decrease symptoms, which might endanger healthy people. Liberty Times, 2021-5-25: Some physicians of Taiwan's NTUH applied for long vacation to avoid curing CovID patients. (health.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3544601) CTV news 2021-5-18: Taiwan's medical capacity is not enough for CovID-19... although, after the outbreak, Taiwan only added 1,000- infected CovID-19 patients (the number of infections, May 15 - 18 : 180, 206, 333, 240). CTS morning news, 2021-5-26: Taipei city gov. says it will be regular for resident detected positive to quarantine at home, instead of hospital or health-care site.
　

Former medical chief 楊志良 warns (TVBS, 1-17-2021) epidemic prevention will fail if gov. continues to take strategy of political manipulation and double standard in favor of medical circle for voting. Soon after a study published in the medical journal Lancet (Oct. 1, 2020) estimates the number of Taiwanese infected with CoronaVirus by July 2020 is 25 times more cases than Taiwan's official number. Washington Post, 12-22-2020: Taiwan snaps world’s longest Covid-free streak after pilot infects local resident. (The loophole of Taiwan is pilots undergo a less strict three days of self-quarantine after each overseas trip) United Daily, editorial (12-24-2020) points out the myth of Taiwan's longest Covid-free streak has always been questioned because (1) lots of tourists or foreign laborers were found infected while going through their country's immigration (2) lots of foreign art-performers and laborers were found infected after 14 days home quarantine in Taiwan. These let us know there indeed are "mild CovID-19 spread in some corners of our communities " (輕症傳播), people with coronavirus infections have no or mild symptoms. Fortunately everyone in Taiwan wearing masks stops serious situation. (https://udn.com/news/story/7338/5117298?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 ) ABC News (12-15-2020) reported Taiwan has set a goal to vaccinate only 60% of its population with a COVID-19 vaccine (abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/latest-korea-opening-dozens-free-virus-test-sites-74710084 ). But VOA, LTN, 12-25-2020 (news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3391701) advise 70% of a country's population should have antibody or must to take vaccinate. Till Feb., 2021, Taiwan's health system has not collapsed under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, most hospitals are functional, severe and intractable patients remained same number, but some departments - Emergency, Pediatrics, Dentistry, ENT, Rehabilitation treatment were affected between Feb. and May 2020, some hospitals' income falls short of expenditure. (tw.appledaily.com/forum/20210221/LK57ZDY4FJHZVK3THEXEZWNY5U/ 李偉強 )

Economist, Safe Cities Index 2021 Health Security
1	Tokyo	87.7
2	Singapore	84.1
3	Hong Kong	84.0
4	Melbourne	81.9
5	Osaka	81.8
6	Seoul	81.1
10	Sydney	78.6
12	Abu Dhabi (UAE)	76.5
13	Dubai	75.5
19	Beijing	73.6
19	Shanghai	73.6
21	Taipei	73.5
safecities.economist.com/safe-cities-2021-whitepaper/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2e6Ih_Sj_gIVAtdMAh1JlQuIEAAYAiAAEgIi_vD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Professor 楊哲銘 on Apple Daily (12-14-2020) says stigmatization and discrimination of diseases is bad for Taiwan's National Insurance systems. The laws (e.g., Communicable Disease Control Act, HIV Infection Control & Patient Rights Protection Act ) to protect and respect the dignity and the legal rights of the infected obviously are useless. US (state dept.) Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 3-11-2020: There was reported discrimination, including employment discrimination, against persons with HIV/AIDS.

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On the other hand, Washington Post at 3-1-2019 "An American got sick in Taiwan. He came back with a tale of the ‘horrors of socialized medicine" named Taiwan's health-care system "socialized medicine", Taiwan is less wealthy than the US, yet it spends less and gets more, the amount costs for a course of Harvoni treatment and C-section is $32,114 and $15,106 respectively in the Us, but $2,132 and $1,404 in Taiwan. An American in Taiwan getting stomach flu was checked by MD within 20 minutes of his arrival (ref. to https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/03/01/an-american-got-sick-taiwan-he-came-back-with-tale-horrors-socialized-medicine/) , although the avg. percentage of patients taking 48 hours in emergency room of NTUH awaiting being hospitalized in 2018 is 7.9%, CVA patient may take 24 hours. Formosa TV news reported at 2-27-2019 that patients usually take 5~7 days or even nearly half month in emergency room of NTUH awaiting being hospitalized. The University of Texas ― M.D. Anderson cancer center professor Euishin Edmund Kim, M.D. urged Korean people don't waste their energy flying to the US for medical treatment, because Korea's medical tech. is as good as any other country's. An article (Apple Daily, Taiwan, 6-22-2015) by Taiwan's Veterans General Hospital physician Dr. Ton (唐宗詠) points out that so many Taiwanese expatriates living abroad (with permanent resident card) and/or foreign citizens of Taiwanese origin flied a long way back to Taiwan for medical treatment. ―― Taiwan's medical-insurance system costs them much less than that in other countries, e.g., the price for a plaster cast in USA almost equals one month salary of a Taiwanese orthopaedics resident-physician, so, some Taiwanese or Taiwanese American, etc, would rather bear the pain caused by their illness and long-distance trip to save lots of their money. http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20150622/633042/ (包山包海包全球的台灣健保) The Liberty Times (5-5-2019) : The number of foreign patients coming Taiwan for treatment etc hits new high, 110 thousands more than that of the previous year.

Taiwan's medical & health performance was so successful (e.g. life expectancy, infant mortality and maternal mortality, are better than U.S., although we spent only one-quarter of USD (PPP) in health expenditure.) that former leader of health government, Dr. Ye Ching-chuan, was invited to testify at an US senate committee hearing on this issue (http://blog.udn.com/yestaipei/18685477) . An article by China Medical University (Taiwan) Professor Ma (馬文隆) stated Taiwanese studies on liver cancer lead the world in the past (http://gicm.cmu.edu.tw/adv.html ) also proves Taiwan's medical tech. is as good as most countries in the world.

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However, United Daily (經濟日報) editorial, 6-25-2020: The financial situation of Taiwan's healthcare system has recently deteriorated, the govt. may need to increased greatly Taiwanese insurance fee. United Daily 6-24-2020: National Taiwan University professor 薛承泰: Taiwan's national health insurance buries 'land mines' or 'time bombs' such as lower birth rate and aging society, some room inside the system for playing tricks, the difference between insurance rate and benefit payment, etc may resulting in consequences. Taiwan's Medical and Health Minister (李伯璋) regards increasing national insurance fee as a political issue which is beyond his authority, instead, he focuses on reducing expenditure. United Daily, 10-9-2020 (udn.com/news/story/7266/4923388): former medical deputy chief criticized reducing expenditure by tracking duplicate examinations etc fails to solve big problem, the government has not dealt with the issue of low diagnostic & operation fee, low drug price, low ward fee and low nursing care fee for 25 years, to make Taiwan's hospitals a "sweat factory", the hospitalizing patients even need to be taken care by their family members or illegal foreign workers. The China Times, 10-30-2020 (chinatimes.com/opinion/20201030000025-262115?chdtv): Taiwan's National Insurance is in "a state of many diseases". The government supposes to increase everyone's insurance fee, but the serious problem of nation's low pay might easily stir a strong backlash. Taiwan loves to use National Insurance as a great international propaganda material, but, the ruling party actually has already treated the issue as a "hot potato", and hence the snow-ball has become bigger and bigger.

Bloomberg, 12-18-2020
country	Health Care Cost 　 GDP%	Health Care Cost per capita
US	17.1	10246
Swiss	12.3	9956
Cuba	11.7	988
France	11.3	4380
Germany	11.2	5033
Sweden	11	5905
Japan	10.9	4169
Canada	10.6	4755
Norway	10.4	7936
Austria	10.4	4940
Belgium	10.3	4507
Nederland	10.1	4911
Denmark	10.1	5800
UK	9.6	3859
Brasil	9.5	929
Australia	9.2	5332
Finland	9.2	4206
NZ	9.2	3937
Argentina	9.1	1325
Portugal	9.0	1908
Chile	9.0	1382
Spain	8.9	2506
Italy	8.8	2840
Iran	8.7	475
Serbia	8.4	529
Ecuador	8.3	518
Lebanon	8.2	719
Greece	8.0	1517
Korea	7.6	2283
Israel	7.4	3145
Costa Rica	7.3	869
Ireland	7.2	4977
Czech	7.2	1476
Columbia	7.2	459
Hungary	6.9	981
Paraguay	6.7	381
Slovakia	6.7	1186
Taiwan	6.6	1550
Poland	6.5	907

Apple Daily 7-17-2019: Taiwan's healthcare system is on the edge of bankruptcy in 2026, the government's allocation of funds for urgent need is no more than curing the symptom instead of curing the disease. Next TV news (5-25-2019, 20:44, 壹新聞壹電視 ) reported that Taiwan government kept adjusting the price of more and more drugs to cover the deficit of medical insurance system, which resulted in more and more brand drugs withdrawing from Taiwan (e.g., TIENAM) , because cheap-price generic drugs made in Taiwan are not as curative effective as brand drugs, Physicians worry there's no good medicines for patients .... Besides, Apple Daily (6-4-2017): Taiwan medical service's critical problem ―― Preventive Health-Care service is behind. The China Times, (7-4-2017) : "patients centered" is nothing but a slogan. Apple Daily, 11-10-2020: It's a reality in today's Taiwan that the omniscient government absolutely manipulate each national's personal data which were collected all the time since he(she) was born, e.g., each person's health & medical data/information was forced without agreement of the party to be opened on purpose of business and academic use(澄社).

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Furthermore,
● Guardian (UK), 10-31-2020: Now, Taipei's people browse, busk and greet each other with handshakes and hugs. It feels normal. However, Taiwan has already "exported" dozens COVID-19 infected cases to a number of foreign countries, not sure yet who should be responsible for this, according to United Daily, editorial, 10-31-2020. https://udn.com/news/story/7338/4977422?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

● New York Post 4-25-2020 : Taiwan deals with CovID-19 with "a lot more authoritarian.", "almost everyone is tracked.". Taiwanese govt. responded at 4-28-2020 that Taiwanese would like to cooperate with our policy. But the truth is Taiwan's "Big Brother" already sneaked into numerous families in the name of Epidemic Prevention, by an injunction violating Tort Law and domineering over Constitution (凌駕憲法的侵權禁令) , without having noticed all nationals, in accordance with United Daily, editorial at 5-7-2020. The ironic thing is after lifting Coronavirus Lockdown, Japan doesn't trust Taiwan's Epidemic Prevention, and has not put "democratic" Taiwan on their welcome list, many other countries did same thing to Taiwan. The China Times, editorial (6-6-2020, 6-25-2020) analyzed one main reason is Taiwan rejects mass testing, even small-scale testing, the number of test per million people is 3000+, ranked world No. 138, about same level as that of African countries, even African Luanda tested double number of Taiwan's. A famous National Taiwan University M.D. expert endorsed for Taiwan's policy : there's no any CovID-19 in Taiwan, 3 weeks later, a Japanese girl staying Taiwan for 4 months was detected positive in Japan's airport. Therefore, those free flow of information can be suspicious and may endanger the entire world. United Daily 7-16-2020: To keep good record, Taiwan takes 'ostrich' strategy (avoid mass testing). According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA, "somewhere between 25% and 50%" of people infected with the new coronavirus may never show symptoms or fall ill — but can still transmit the illness to others (4-15-2020, Business Insider). Bill Gates in the New England Journal of Medicine: The prevalence of asymptomatic transmission doesn't bode well for global containment efforts. All studies (CNBC 5-7-2020, Singapore's Blackbox Research and Toluna, Forbes 6-5-2020, 4-16-2020: The Deep Knowledge Group) concluded China is better than Taiwan on CovID-19 safety countries rankings. Apple Daily 7-8-2020: expert (中央研究院研究員何美鄉) warned that many CovID-19 infected people without symptom in Taiwan.

● The China Times, editorial (6-6-2020) : world don't trust Taiwan's Epidemic Prevention achievement ―― Although Japan, Greece, Australia, New Zealand lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown, their tourist-welcome-list includes Korea, China, but not Taiwan. Since the very beginning Taiwan rejects mass testing, even small-scale testing, the percentage (the number of test per million people is 3000+, ) was ranked world No. 138. But according to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA, "somewhere between 25% and 50%" of people infected with the new coronavirus may never show symptoms or fall ill — but can still transmit the illness to others (4-15-2020, Business Insider). Bill Gates in the New England Journal of Medicine: The prevalence of asymptomatic transmission doesn't bode well for global containment efforts. Taiwan Yahoo News (8-6-2020, news.yahoo.com/自家人開第一槍何志偉逆時中入境一律篩檢-002543455.html) reported even ruling party's lawmaker now urges giving testing to all visitors going thru immigration.
● Taiwan News 6-26-2020, United Daily 6-27-2020: Following news that a Japanese student tested positive for coronavirus after returning from southern Taiwan on Wednesday (June 24), many Taiwanese expressed concerns over a potential undetected community cluster. Voices have also begun to surge from communities calling for general virus testing for all individuals entering the island country. Taiwan CECC insists general virus testing unnecessary ... UDN 7-16-2020: the only means govt. got are containment and wearing mask. United Daily 6-30-2020 editorial: Taiwanese experts suggesting general testing were attacked by internet army for that reason.

● The China Times 6-25-2020 editorial: Taiwan has no same capacity and experience as Beijing does to face something serious, it will be horrible in case CovID-19 epidemic break out. https://www.chinatimes.com/opinion/20200624003961-262101?chdtv

● Apple Daily (蘋果日報, 4-15-2019), United Daily (聯合報, 4-14-2019) ... : Going easy route, lacking of ethics, MDs advised using Da Vinci for even a minor operation, 38 hospitals were suspected of making false report about Da Vinci surgery to illegally obtain benefits from national insurance up to NTD 3.5 billion.

● The Liberty Times, (9-29-2018) : Taipei mayor Ko: Taiwan's medical services all aim for profit, the problem of politics there is everyone tells right from wrong, but no one wants to do the right thing. In Taiwan, the better medical knowledge, the less profit ― M.D.s curing patient of disease by simpler methods can not make good money, instead, they tried to convince you to do Hemodialysis, Positive airway pressure, ... or even to stay in intensive care unit (ICU) ... LTN 11-27-'15: medical problem is political problem, the whole medical systems were manipulated by mega-corporation, and no one wants to make any change ... The Liberty Times (LTN) 11-26-'15: Taipei mayor Ko said physicians or medical Doctors of Taiwan just don't speak the truth, otherwise they will be killed, or be accused... Ko doesn't like to join even the most important meetings of National Taiwan University Hospital ―― in there, either "paper over the cracks" or taking chance to struggle each other.

● The China Times, (7-4-2017) : former leader of Taiwan University Hospital criticized that many hospitals' management is only for profit-making, hospital managers should win by virtue, physicians should advance their knowledge and tech. all the time, otherwise "patients centered" is nothing but a slogan.

● Apple Daily, (8-18-2018): "The rich see Doctors, the poor enter grave (有錢看病、沒錢等死)"? / former medical gov. leader 楊志良。 Popular TV star 白冰冰 said (June 2017) : "The rich cut in a queue to see Doctors, the poor are on the way to die (有錢免排、無錢等埋)" !

● United Daily News (9-28-2018): <我們都是病友>: ... The administration and part of Taiwan's medical circle have not treated patients' rights as central issue (病人為中心) / 楊志良。

● Apple Daily, 12-30-2017: Amending the law of Taiwan's medical services is criticized as "Decriminalization". Taiwan's medical-service environment is getting worse (台灣醫院免責? 醫療環境再惡化). Patients in Taiwan will be difficult to put to the proof in their legal cases.

● United Daily News (5-30-2017): The biggest problem of Taiwan's medical care is too short diagnostic time, without a completed examination in most cases, usually, patients are already in serious condition when symptom became clear. / Dr. Huang D.F., president of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center.
● Apple Daily (6-4-2017): Taiwan's critical problem ―― Preventive Health-Care service is behind. / former medical gov leader Young (楊志良).

● A famous M.D., Hsu or Xu Da-Fu (許達夫)'s book "Exposing the truth of modern medical circle in Taiwan - misdiagnosis & medical errors" ("誤診誤醫", published by the China Times, 2012) criticizes :
(1) Taiwan's hospitals focus on profit/benefit and ignore patients' rights (in Ch.1 "Taiwan's medical system is ill") ― The whole medical circle already went the wrong route, it gonna be too late if most influential and enthusiastic persons do not spend efforts on completely changing our medical education to boot physicians' medical spirits.
(2) Medical students only learn Pathology and the way how their professors doing malicious competition and internal struggle for the power and money, and lack of Ethics knowledge as well as Humanism quality.○

● Taipei City mayor Ko : Taiwan has not established a culture of honesty, each time being in National Taiwan University Hospital's meeting, the 1st thing cross mind always is "who performed the operation (surgery) ?", M.D.s always take it personally ... ( '無法真正做到對事不對人') / buzzorange.com/2015/05/29 " The phony culture in Taipei City Hall - 整個社會都在說謊？！柯文哲揭露市府假面文化" http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20170611002397-260407

top rankings on US Yahoo, Bing, Google, Euro. MetaGER.de, Taiwan's Yahoo, etc, tests in 2019 ~present

pic. : This websites group was ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" test at 2-12-2021

Bloomberg, 12-18-2020
country	Health Care Cost 　 GDP%	Health Care Cost per capita
US	17.1	10246
Swiss	12.3	9956
Cuba	11.7	988
France	11.3	4380
Germany	11.2	5033
Sweden	11	5905
Japan	10.9	4169
Canada	10.6	4755
Norway	10.4	7936
Austria	10.4	4940
Belgium	10.3	4507
Nederland	10.1	4911
Denmark	10.1	5800
UK	9.6	3859
Brasil	9.5	929
Australia	9.2	5332
Finland	9.2	4206
NZ	9.2	3937
Argentina	9.1	1325
Portugal	9.0	1908
Chile	9.0	1382
Spain	8.9	2506
Italy	8.8	2840
Iran	8.7	475
Serbia	8.4	529
Ecuador	8.3	518
Lebanon	8.2	719
Greece	8.0	1517
Korea	7.6	2283
Israel	7.4	3145
Costa Rica	7.3	869
Ireland	7.2	4977
Czech	7.2	1476
Columbia	7.2	459
Hungary	6.9	981
Paraguay	6.7	381
Slovakia	6.7	1186
Taiwan	6.6	1550
Poland	6.5	907

Bloomberg, 12-18-2020
life expectancy	年齡
HK	84.93
Japan	84.21
Swiss	83.75
Spain	83.43
Italy	83.35
Singapore	83.15
Israel	82.80
Norway	82.76
Australia	82.75
France	82.72
S Korea	82.63
Sweden	82.56
Ireland	82.26
Canada	81.95
NZ	81.86
Nederland	81.81
Greece	81.79
Finland	81.73
Austria	81.69
Belgium	81.60
Portugal	81.32
UK	81.26
Denmark	80.95
Germany	80.89
Taiwan	80.69
Costa Rica	80.10
Chile	80.04

Finance Yahoo, 12-30-2020 (finance.yahoo.com/news/retire-taiwan-costs-visas-more-215449948.html ): Taiwan ranks 11th globally in the healthcare efficiency index of Knoema.com, and Numbeo ranks the nation’s healthcare system as the best in the world.

A legal resident of is eligible for the NHI program. It includes coverage for inpatient and outpatient care, prescription drugs, dental care (excluding orthodontics and prosthodontics) and more. Taiwan doesn’t offer free healthcare for expats, but payments will come in the form of copayments. Usually, you can expect to pay 10% to 20% of treatment. You may also have to pay out-of-pocket costs if you choose any other healthcare treatment outside of the NHI coverage...

to fill the coverage gap, you may have to purchase private Taiwan expat healthcare insurance. Additionally, it can take a few months to complete the NHI registration ...

pic. left : No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on Baidu of China , 2021-5-31, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 2-12-2021;

pic. right: No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Baidu of China , 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 2-12-2021

No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Webcrawler , 2021-6-24, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020

No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Lycos , 2021-6-24, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020; pic.: No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Excite , 2021-6-24, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020

No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on ekoru (New Zealand) , 2021-6-24, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020; pic.: No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Dogpile , 2021-6-24, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27, 2021-4-10, 3-10-2021, 8-17-2020

pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on Yahoo Taiwan, 2021-4-10, No. 1 on Yahoo Japan , 3-10-2021

pic. : This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" test at 1-16-2021, 12-30-2020, 7-31-2020;

pic. above: The sites-group was ranked No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on US Google , 1-1-2021, 12-30-2020

pic. left: No.1 "評論台灣醫院"(comment hospitals in Taiwan) on google, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-26, 2021-4-18, 3-11-2021, pic. right: No.1 "評論台灣醫院"(comment Taiwan hospitals) on google, 2021-5-5, 2021-4-27

No.1 "comment Taiwan hospitals " on US Google , 11-28-2020, Nov. 6, 2020, 9-16-2020, 8-26-2020, 7-31-2020, 6-1-2020

This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" test at 6-30-2020, 6-1-2020, 1-20-2020

pic. : This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" test at 11-11-2019

pic. : This websites group is ranked No.1 on Baidu of China by keyword "comment Taiwan hospitals" at 2021-8-20, 2021-8-8, 10-24-2019.

pic. : No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on ASK , 3-10-2021

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★1. serious Corruption - ready to pay a bribe?

● Next TV news (壹新聞), 2021-10-28 19:12 : Now money-cash is not allowed, patients give Doctors imported wine for better "treatment", in the amount of NT$3000~5000 at least. The Doctors regularly exchange those wine with money thru some channels.

● The percentage of Taiwanese paying a bribe to public clinics or hospitals is higher than that in Japan, S. Korea, Malaysia

Transparency International, Germany / Global Corruption Barometer - released 2021/2022 comparisons among main Asian countries
country	people who think government corruption is a big problem	public service users paid a bribe in the previous 12 months	public clinic, health centres	gov. officials	local gov. officials	corruption level increased in previous 12months
Taiwan	90%	17%	9%	19%	20%	38%
Japan	84	2	2	7	26	36
Malaysia	71	13	5	28	16	20
China	62	28	26	18	18	39
S Korea	55	10	6	26	42	17
transparency.org/en/countries/taiwan

● According to <Transparency International> studies ( July 9, 2013), "Have you or anyone in your household paid a bribe to one of these 8 services in the last 12 months?"
Taiwanese people think the institution needed to be paid bribery most is judiciary system, second is Taiwan's medical and health services, the number of Taiwanese paying a bribe is higher than global average. ( Apple Daily 7-10-2013,http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20130710/35139300/ )
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<Transparency International> of Germany also found the percentage(%) of Taiwanese respondents who felt medical and health services were one of corrupt/extremely corrupt institutions in this country/territory is 47%.

● CNA (Taiwan), 4-8-2021: The president of Taiwan Adventist General Hospital was involved in national insurance fraud case. cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/202104080203.aspx The Liberty Times (1-10-2017): The hospital M.D. got brokerage or kickback in various forms - e.g., money, presents/gifts, joining international seminar or conference sponsored by medicine business, or money that contributed to some foundations ... It's a complicated Symbiotic relationship (benefit each other).

◆ Apple Daily (蘋果日報, 4-15-2019), United Daily (聯合報, 4-14-2019) ... : Going easy route, lacking of ethics, 38 hospitals were suspected of making false report about Da Vinci surgery to illegally obtain benefits from national insurance up to NTD 3.5 billion.

◆ Apple Daily (蘋果日報, 12-12-2019, headline news), United Daily (聯合報, 12-12-2019) ... : 6 hospitals used fake accounts to apply insurance overpayments ( among them, 北市聯醫 applied for NT55,000 thousands, by in total 32000 cases, most in Taiwan history...) from the government.

◆ United Daily News (聯合報), 7-12-2019: Control Yuan (gov.) corrects National Taiwan University Hospital for taking a passive, negative attitude toward a national insurance scam (by NTUH physician) and not checking carefully a wider range of this issue, not taking any measure to prevent this sort things from happening again, since the suite case was under investigations, the hospital long term was careless of administration and controls so that the suspect can signed fake documents for making illegal money. NTUH expressed it's done by the MD himself and the hospital will review all related procedures. (brief, for precise meaning pls. see the pic. above)

pic.: Control Yuan (gov.) corrected National Taiwan University Hospital / UDN 2019

◆ pic.: 東森電視; Global News TV - 寰宇綜合, 3-21-2018, 6:40 pm "醫師好辣" - "unspoken secrets in Taiwan's operation rooms": Patients usually prefer the first operation in each day, this happened that 3 patients all paid bribery to the famous surgeons for having the 1st operation, and all of them had it ......

◆ The finding of the 2013 Global Corruption Barometer (GCB), ( the Gallup Poll to interview 114,000 people in 107 countries all over the world): 36% of people (surveyed in TW) who had used any of eight government services in the past year had paid a bribe (the number is higher than global average). <NOWnews> , (7.10.2013)– Taiwan is the 18th worst corruption country in 95 countries surveyed. (重度貪污國家第18名) <Apple Daily> (7.11.2013): Apple daily's survey found 75.07% Taiwanese people think corruption in Taiwan is actually worse than GCB's report.

◆ <Transparency International> , Taiwan, Dec 9, '05
Taiwan's Corruption Index : medical 32%
ps: this proved Taiwanese medical service is a long lasting rotten circle.

◆ China Times, 11-21-2015 (brief)

National Health Insurance committee members think Taiwan's Admin. Department treat National Health Insurance as their own gold-mine or pocket money - withdraw it as much as possible (成了自己的金庫予取予求)

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★2. worse Medicine

n CommonHealth (2023) commonhealth.com.tw/article/87825 : National Taiwan University Hospital president Wu (吳明賢) etc said that our national insurance system blocks new drugs and new equipments. On average, new drugs are behind 5 years even 10 years to enter Taiwan's market, some Broad-spectrum (not for "first-line treatment") antibiotics were planning to leave Taiwan.

n United Daily (聯合報), 2023-2-13: pharmacies are short of antibiotics, antacids, and antipyretics. udn.com/news/story/7338/6967234?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

n United Daily (聯合報), 2022-11-6: "The darkest day of history of medicine" (我國藥政史最黑暗的一天) / Taiwanese government fools the public by EUA，it's a ethical scandal rarely seen in human research that using national's data to prove CovID-19 vaccine's efficacy which acknowledges that using them as guinea pigs , not to mention the "experiment" does not provide with basic data such as gender and age. It is a research without scientific credit at all. udn.com/news/story/7339/6742736?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2

nNext TV news (5-25-2019, 20:44 / 壹新聞壹電視) reported that Taiwan government kept adjusting the price of more and more drugs to cover the deficit of medical insurance system, which resulted in more and more international brand drugs withdrawing from Taiwanese market (e.g., TIENAM) . Behind the slogan "the price of medicines of Taiwan is cheapest in the world" is the cheap-price generic drugs made in Taiwan are not as curative effective as brand drugs, because Taiwan's drug companies don't insist on strict quality control on every process, and will not "tighten nerves" after having official permissions from the government. Physicians worry there's no good medicines for patients ... In April 2019, Taiwan government continued to adjust the price of 7470 items of medicines, furthermore, the hospitals kept haggling with the drug companies (e.g., the gov. declares certain drug NTD10, the hospitals cut it down to NTD 7 ), the price difference became main profit for the hospitals... ( brief )

       nThe Apple Daily (6-30-2018): Medicine (drug store) is a criminal business for their entire life.
       The Apple Daily (2-20-2016, Prime News): according to clinical experiences, many generic drugs are not as effective as brand drugs...
       nTVBS news reported at 7-15-2015 that (http://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/news-608090/) in order to maximize the profit, Taiwanese hospitals always cut down the price while purchasing medicines from pharmaceutical factories, this results in international brand drug companies are/were not willing to sell their brand-name medicines to Taiwan, therefore, the quality of prescription medicines in Taiwan is from bad to worse (用藥品質越來越差) . Former Minister of Health (楊志良) criticized that Taiwanese hospitals do not like to improve medical employee's (M.D.s and nurses) welfare by using their surplus profit.   Many hospitals run their business by "medicine to cover medical" strategy, which is, earning profit by medicine price differences to cover hospital's expenses.   If things go on this way, Taiwanese patients will not have good brand-name medicines even being willing to pay on own dimes in the future, more and more international drug companies may pull back from Taiwan's market for unreasonable high medicine price disparities. Apple Daily of Taiwan reported at 6-22-2015 that Taiwan's hospitals already used medicines made in Taiwan to replace int'l brand stuffs, and then, recently even don't like to buy some local's medicines (最近甚至連台廠藥都做不下去), till now, money can't buy some important antibiotic medicines.

nThe United Daily (9-1-2015)'s article "medicine is cheaper than candy" (by 楊志良): Almost all International pharmaceutical factories/companies had already withdrawn their business from Taiwan many years ago, Those companies having brand drugs within term of a patent show no interests in Taiwan's market, This "Black Hole" resulted in "bad medicines/drugs drive out good"...

nThe United Daily, the Apple Daily (9-3-2015, Prime News): Taiwanese government's new policy - patients paying the part not covered by NHI use brand drugs, is criticized as creating a "class distinctions" (class antagonism), but some cases found generic drugs are not as effective as brand drugs, UDN also mentions medical government lacks of ability to admin. the bigger and bigger drugs/medical device market paid at patient's own expense...
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news	◆ Hinet & 台灣新生報 news : Taiwanese prosecutor do not file prosecution against Huang (秀傳醫療體系總裁黃明和) for suspicious having earned huge amount of medicine price differences by establishing an empty-shell company.

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pic. above: Medical human rights in Taiwan

pic. above: one surgeon performs
many operations simultaneously - happened quite often in Taiwan
Dr.Xu's book /
by The China Times

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★3. Surgery

United Daily (聯合報, headline news, 5-11-2019): unspoken secrets inside operation rooms: Many hospitals reused expensive expendables, some smaller hospitals reused cheap expendables, like medical gauze, suture, etc, the patients under general anesthesia knew nothing and hence were exposed the risk of infection.
United Daily (聯合報, 10-7-2019): 70,000 pieces of illegal medical appliances (TAD, plate of bone) were sold to 200 hospitals/clinics ...

Apple Daily (9-18-2017) reported that "fake surgery" (substitute-surgeon operates illegally) did happen in Chang Gung Mem. Hospital, Taiwan.

Apple Daily (5-13-2015) reported that Taiwanese people have an "Obsession" ― famous is best, hence, an evil trend "one surgeon performs many operations simultaneously" (「跳台開刀」) prevails, which is a long-lasting cooperate module ―― a best-known surgeon-physician walks and looks around several operating tables in different operation rooms (all are in his name), and selects a major one to perform a most important part of that surgical procedure, the rest are taken over by 'unknown or less famous' physicians. (http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20150513/36547459/)

A famous M.D., Hsu or Xu Da-Fu (許達夫)'s book "Exposing the truth of modern medical circle in Taiwan - misdiagnosis & medical errors" ("誤診誤醫", published by the China Times, 2012) also criticized this by a real example, a patient complained : the substituted surgeon was not the one on the agreement document with patient's and his in-charge physician's signatures, that substituted doctor even did not know which part needed to be performed operation when he was there in the surgical suite, after the surgery, the patient's wound has become inflamed... Dr. Xu explained this sort of stories indeed happened frequently (經常發生) in today's hospitals, particularly, in major hospitals, because each best-known medical doctor has many patients, it's hard for the doctor to take care of everyone, hence, substituted surgeons doing operations for best-known M.D.s is quite often (常見), particularly, for those famous physicians in charge also working as teachers, lots of things keep them very busy. Dr. Xu suggested every patient must keeps in mind who is your M.D. in charge, and if you see a substituted doctor showing up in surgical suite, just refuse him to do the operation, unless you are in an emergent situation.

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● 東森電視; Global News TV - 寰宇綜合, 3-21-2018, 6:40 pm <unspoken secrets in Taiwan's operation room> "醫師好辣 - 開刀房不告訴你的事", discussed the phenomenon ― "one Doctor performs several operations at the same time", and small Doctors perform operations for top Doctors without notifying patients 　 Full text : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2p7b4ZTQg
	pic. left: In medical centers or large hospitals, you may gave surgery by "students", in small hospital, you may have operation by "master teachers" .
	pic. left: It's very possible that resident-Doctors (sometimes, or even CR MD) replaced top MD to perform operations without notifying patients.
	pic. left: The larger hospitals, the more possible small MDs do operations for top MDs .
	pic. left: even in training-purpose cases, quite many "teacher" MDs still leave operation suites.
	pic. left: It was this way years ago, security guards did operation, MDs became their "assistant".
● Apple Daily ( 蘋果日報 5-13-2015) reported that a famous physician (ranking top 100 in Business Weekly) in Taiwan's Taichung Veterans General Hospital performed 5 operations at same time, that caused a woman's death and his new name - suspicious crime of fraud. (http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20150513/36547449/) (中榮名醫同時五台刀涉詐欺害婦送命疑沒進開刀房也領獎金 / 廉政署鴨子划水蒐證數月後，發現《商業周刊》百大良醫沈男兩年內疑有十件跳台開刀情況)

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★4. Bad privacy status in Taiwan's hospitals
      ◆ The Liberty Times, 3-15-2021 (news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3467139): 5 Nurses took pictures of the female patients’ private parts on hospital operation room, and added some funny remarks, then uploaded them to the online social media IG, ignoring Article 72 of the "Medical Law" (護理人員行為可能涉違反「醫療法」第72條不得無故洩漏病人病情及健康資訊，可處5萬至25萬罰鍰；也恐涉違反「護理人員法」28條護理人員不得洩漏他人秘密，可罰6000元至3萬元)
       ◆ The China Times, 7-3-2017: Taiwan's regulations for patients' privacy is almost no legal effect, hospitals don't take it serious. e.g., a 30 years old female patient was hospitalized in a very famous hospital 榮總, after she striped her clothes for MD's diagnosis, more than 10 male and female physicians came in, one student (probably intern) took picture by cell phone, the patient can't stand all these and burst out crying .....
     ◆ The United Daily News (聯合新聞) 1-3-2017 <Where's Taiwan's medical ethics ?> : Leaking patients' medical records is a normal social behaviour in Taiwan - In Taiwan, journalists are not used to respect patients' privacy... our hospitals' members do not know very clearly the principle of protecting patients' privacy...(黃達夫)
       ◆ Apple Daily (3-5-2017): A large hospital's nurse took a picture of the patient without any permission during brain operation in surgical suite and then spread that photo through Instagram. That nurse also remarked "It's so exciting to see human's brain!".

◆ Apple Daily (9-28-2019): about 3 years ago, communist Chinese pro. hackers already broke in Taiwan's top hospitals' computer systems (NTUH, 榮總, etc) and stole all patients' medical records ...

pic.: United Daily News (1-3-2017)

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★5. Ethics, Ethics, Ethics

      Some top MD gave some patients to cut in line. Feb. 2022
      Apple Daily , 11-9-2020: a physical therapist of Cheng-Hsin General Hospital (Taipei 振興醫院), a famous hospital, committed a crime of sexual harassment (made a pass at her private part, etc) while doing massage upon a female patient. tw.appledaily.com/local/20201109/6J43CZ653VBS3PZZKDBA4FK3XA/
      United Daily, 1-12-2020, editorial opinion: A Taiwanese M.D. gave drugs causing drowsiness to whoever (patient) supports different political party's presidential election candidate.
     According to the book, < Disease and society ― Taiwan searches its conscience from experiences during SARS crisis> (book title : <疫病與社會：台灣歷經SARS風暴之醫學與人文反省 >, author/ 蔡甫昌、江宜樺(former Prime Minster)etc, Publisher/ National Taiwan University, Medical School, Sept. 2012 )

     ◆ Many medical school students' parents scared SARS and ignored the situation that insufficient numbers of doctors confronting SARS, hence, those parents pressed the government to pull 300 intern students out of hospital by reporting "something" to the Control Yuan that Educational government already neglected its duty.
       ◆ Some state hospital paused emergency and regular medical services (門診), about 1/3 clinics there stopped their services by all kinds of "reasons" you can imagine. 124 nurses in a medical center in Southern Taiwan refused to take care of SARS patients and then resigned, some M.D.s also resigned for the same reason.
     ◆ Some medical center found hospital infection and took "block & isolate " strategy, the next day more and more patients at ward escaped from that hospital, Taiwanese government received reports from all major medical centers in Northern, Central, Southern Taiwan, the hospital president, and Infection Control directors concealed SARS outbreak within the hospital to avoid losing face, avoid dropping profit-performance, and/or avoid being sealed off the hospital, this serious situations became major cause that Taiwan's SARS continued to spread larger and larger.
   ◆ The work ethics, concealing SARS outbreak, delaying reporting to center government or rejecting SARS patients to avoid profiting worse are the most important reasons resulting in hospital onset of infection and spreading SARS from bad to worse in Taiwan.

◆ Mass media reported a few years ago that very few NTU medical students like to take medical-ethics sort course, although Medical educators are increasingly stressing the importance of training in the ethical issues encountered in clinical practice ( National ChenKun University - http://ped.hosp.ncku.edu.tw/chinese/xoops/modules/tinyd/index.php?id=11).

◆ Taiwanese personality/character, pls click for details... No.1 ranking on google for a long time!

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★6. Physicians、Politics、society
● United Daily, 1-12-2020, editorial opinion: During presidential election campaign, some citizen supporting different political party intended to use NTUH rest-room but was driven out by NTU medical college student.

● FTV(民視)<Taiwan History(台灣演義)> 4-16-2017 , "Taiwan University Medical School" (for details pls ref to youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf2VRok0uRO2bH10tnVg9rWCIGeddXcSk)

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) ●

● Taiwan University Hospital had major medical achievements, including Asian No.1 records

Taiwan physicians social status became lower

● Taiwanese physicians' social status is not as good as before

(After National Health Insurance putting into effect, Taiwanese people's consciousness rises, and usually make treatment requests to their M.D.,.. resulting in Physician-Patient relationship under tension)

● ● "High physicians cure the nation" / Former NTU dean Lee (李鎮源) urged freedom of expression and human rights in Nation's Day of '91, and called physicians together, eventually, only 50- out of 1000+ NTUH physicians joined that protest. Reports pointed out Taiwanese physicians're afraid of speaking freely which may damages their future, since so many elites were killed in 228 political event, some victims got serious consequences for sort of minor mistakes, all these experiences and perspective deep rooted in some medical people's mind, and became motive to fight back.

● Taiwan University Medical School lacks humanism thoughts

(Taiwan's current social value system is rapidly changing the culture in medical circle / Dean of NTU medical school (張上淳) advised that
always keep in mind a love-based, "patient-centered", and humanistic-care thinking )

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Taiwan's high CovID-19 death rate - why ??

Taiwan's CovID-10 recovery rate and death rate both are worse than Asia average and world average...

SCMP, 2021-6-9, scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136609/coronavirus-critics-ask-why-taiwans-death-rate-higher-global: Taiwan has a fatality-per-infection rate of 2.78 per cent (jumps to 4.2 % at 6-23) compared with global average 2.14 per cent. critics ask why Taiwan’s death rate is higher than the global pandemic average ?
Taiwanese government's official answer is mainly because of the acute rise in cases in the past month and because many patients had pre-existing chronic diseases。 CDC at 2021-6-25 changed its phrase and said that's because aged 60+ elders stand for 90% deaths.
However, the real causes probably are ... most elders are assigned to be low priority group by the gov. and have not got vaccinated (by contrast, 寰宇 news, 2021-6-25: more than half of Japanese elders aged 65+ got it already, EU urged speeding it up to fight corona-virus variant )
　

◆◆shortage of vaccines / elders are lower priority group in waiting line
(1) New York Times, 2021-5-21: Taiwan focused on developing its own vaccine, which has yet to pan out, and did not hustle for overseas doses. (Taiwan's vaccine probably can not get the green light from the global health body, media question the gov. trying to benefit from vaccine) 。CTV news, 2021-6-25: Taiwan government refuses to green light Buddhist group (慈濟) applying to purchase and donate 5 million Pfizer BNT vaccine doses. KMT politician and lawmaker said "it must be president Tsai I. W. ", "she does not want many vaccines in Taiwan".
(2) Global Times, 2021-6-18, Taiwan CDC , 2021-6-25, 2021-6-8: 90+% deaths are aged 60+ elder residents。 News, 2021-6-5: about 70% sever patients are aged 60+. Unlike some major western countries giving elders priority for vaccination, Taiwanese elders and those with chronic disease stand behind the waiting queue, even now, they are in 6th and 11th/10th priority ( www-ws.pthg.gov.tw/Upload/2015pthg/82/relfile/10275/502184/6-9版covid-19疫苗公費接種對象_att1.pdf).

(3) so many Taiwanese abuse privilege to jump long queue to get vaccinated. CTS TV news (華視) 2021-6-9: some have privilege to take vaccines ! ; Next TV, 2021-6-11: Air-force hospital vaccinated privilege people. CTV news (中視), 2021-6-9 : Lawmaker slammed abusing power to vaccination, just like Taiwan's lousy judiciary ("有錢判生沒錢判死" ― "有錢免排沒錢等埋" ) . TTV news, 2021-6-23: Taipei mayor slammed a best-known law maker was repeatedly "illegally" lobbying vaccine doses. FTV news, 2021-6-9 (8:00pm ~) criticizes Taipei government for vaccination privilege.

◆◆inadequate medicines / (1) CTV news, 2021-6-9: In 2020, only one hospital, NTUH, can use Remdesivir, a specific remedy for CovID-19 patients, in earlier 2021, all hospitals need CDC's approval (was rejected quite often) and usually take 8 ~ 12 hours for patients to have it, sometimes it's too late. (gov changed the regulation recently) (2) China Times, 2021-6-9 : Doctors say increasing deaths are related to inadeguate medication chinatimes.com/opinion/20210608005991-262101?chdtv (3) United Daily, editorial, Jun. 2021: severe patients awaited one week but failed to have Remdesivir, but CDC said adequate medication for patients. ― expert comments: patients are hard to have it, certainly medicines are enough。 (udn.com/news/story/7339/5513808?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 楊哲銘). Taiwan national insurance system was suspected to care money more than human lives and health. Expert in UDN 2021-6-7 advices more investments on national insurance to assure medical quality.

◆◆wrong order / Financial Times, 2021-6-1: Taipei put patients with light symptoms up in the best-equipped hospital beds before the local outbreak. Hospitals were therefore not ready to rapidly take up the large numbers of severe cases arriving now。

ft.com/content/9c0aaf96-28ed-4dee-88a9-38557a200813 (Taiwan failed to take flexible measure, why ?) CTV news , 2021-6-17: patient complains can not have a cup of water for 2 days, even needs to ask democratic representative to talk with hospital about this. CTV, 2021-6-16: patient in quarantine hotel complains no one take care his high temperature for a long time, the situation is like " waiting for death".

◆◆lacking knowledge / Guardian, 2021-6-7: Taiwan authorities hadn’t kept up with new scientific knowledge around virulent new strains, theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/a-victim-of-its-own-success-how-taiwan-failed-to-plan-for-a-major-covid-outbreak

Taiwan did not give importance to the importance of ventilation , mass testing, or locking down hard and early, instead, they work on police investigation, tracing sys. and precision testings, etc.

◆◆actual number of infections / the official number of infections has been questioned

in Taiwan's medical and health-care system's mistake in fighting CovID-19

Full text: CovID on Taiwan

★ New York Times, 2021-5-20: This Day Was Bound to Come’ / border controls had shielded it from the worst of the pandemic. But new variants and a slow vaccine rollout gave the virus an opening. nytimes.com/2021/05/20/world/asia/taiwan-covid-outbreak.html

★ TIME, 2021-5-20: a False Sense of Security, and a Little Secret Tea, Broke Down Taiwan's COVID-19 Defenses time.com/6050316/taiwan-covid-19-outbreak-tea/

★ CBS, 2021-5-20: Taipei mayor says "The epidemic situation in Taiwan will be like a tight string: Under high pressure, it may snap at any time" cbsnews.com/news/taiwan-covid-cases-previous-success-story-now-record-coronavirus-surge/

★ The Guardian (UK), 2021-5-16: one of the world’s leading pandemic responses prompted partial lockdown measures in two cities... The level 3 alert covers about 6.5 million of Taiwan’s 24 million people ... (ps: CBS, 2021-5-20: covers entire Taiwan) had not implemented more stringent restrictions (level 4 alert) because residents might resist... guidelines for hospitals to prioritise symptomatic Covid cases, saying dedicated beds were beginning to fill. theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise)

★ L.A. Times, 2021-5-16: Taiwan, once a pandemic success story faces worst outbreak latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-05-15/taiwan-covid19-pandemic-outbreak

★ Business Insider, 2021-5-20: A New York Times piece warns that Taiwan's "high walls" may risk "isolating Taiwan economically and politically," and suggests that a strong border policy cannot and should not be a long-term strategy...Taiwan has prided itself in its transparency in containing the virus, yet double standards and stigma still found their way. businessinsider.com/taiwan-covid-19-paradise-health-politics-policy-cdc-2021-5

★ Guardian (UK), 10-31-2020: Now, Taipei's people browse, busk and greet each other with handshakes and hugs. It feels normal. However, Taiwan has already "exported" dozens COVID-19 infected cases to a number of foreign countries, not sure yet who should be responsible for this,
according to United Daily, editorial, 10-31-2020
　

★ Apple Daily 7-8-2020: expert (中央研究院研究員何美鄉) warned that many infected people without symptom in Taiwan.

★ New York Post 4-25-2020 : Taiwan deals with CovID-19 with "a lot more authoritarian.", "almost everyone is tracked.". Taiwanese govt. responded at 4-28-2020 that Taiwanese would like to cooperate with our policy. But the truth is Taiwan's "Big Brother" already sneaked into numerous families in the name of Epidemic Prevention, by an injunction violating Tort Law and domineering over Constitution (凌駕憲法的侵權禁令) , without having noticed all nationals, in accordance with United Daily, editorial at 5-7-2020. The ironic thing is after lifting Coronavirus Lockdown, Japan doesn't trust Taiwan's Epidemic Prevention, and has not put "democratic" Taiwan on their welcome list, many other countries did same thing to Taiwan. The China Times, editorial (6-6-2020, 6-25-2020) analyzed one main reason is Taiwan rejects mass testing, even small-scale testing, the number of test per million people is 3000+, ranked world No. 138, about same level as that of African countries, even African Luanda tested double number of Taiwan's. A famous National Taiwan University M.D. expert endorsed for Taiwan's policy : there's no any CovID-19 in Taiwan, 3 weeks later, a Japanese girl staying Taiwan for 4 months was detected positive in Japan's airport. Therefore, those free flow of information can be suspicious and may endanger the world people. According to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA, "somewhere between 25% and 50%" of people infected with the new coronavirus may never show symptoms or fall ill — but can still transmit the illness to others (4-15-2020, Business Insider). Bill Gates in the New England Journal of Medicine: The prevalence of asymptomatic transmission doesn't bode well for global containment efforts. All studies (CNBC 5-7-2020, Singapore's Blackbox Research and Toluna, Forbes 6-5-2020, 4-16-2020: The Deep Knowledge Group) concluded China is better than Taiwan on CovID-19 safety countries rankings.
　

★7. Nurse Taiwan Hospitals' illegal situation was/is serious
　

nPeople, 2024-4-5: Instead of taking shelter themselves, nurses desperately cling to infants in nursery ward ( at the Ma Chérie Postpartum Care Center in Taipei) during Taiwan's 7.4 magnitude earthquake, video shows. CNN video msn.com/en-us/news/world/nurses-desperately-cling-to-infants-in-nursery-ward-during-taiwan-earthquake-video-shows/ar-BB1l5IiH

nCommonHealth (2023): The turnover rate of the nurses is high.
nUnited Daily, 2022-9-26: In the past two decades, hospitals have often failed to hire enough number of nurses, a few nurses take the work of many nurses suppose to do, and the working schedule usually can not be well arranged, therefore there is a so-called " Sweat Nurse". Besides, the salaries and benefits of nurses in clinics are difficult to compete with those in hospitals, the nursing manpower ratio of hospital to clinics is 4.4 to 1. udn.com/news/story/7339/6639908?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2

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◆ TVBS 3-29-2019: in NTUH, MDs of each wards come emergency room to 'pick up' patients to be hospitalized, however, if you select an old patient with multiple diseases or bad daily life functions ( e.g., incontinence of urine or feces), the nurse(s) may give you her attitude to make you sick ... Taipei Mayor Ko ( 柯文哲) criticized ... for details pls. read NTUH 7D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_BLkZky00

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◆ Some nurses are patient and nice, some others are not . Take Taiwan's probably best (AIT once called it a Jewel on the Crown, but changed the name later ), NTUH, as an example, nurses in wards usually are good, but in emergency room, some failed to have blood-draw job done (feb. '18), some got medicines stuck in NG tube (July '19, but she has strong sense of responsibility to follow hospital's regulations to feed patient with medicine, some others just gave medicine powder to patient's families) ... At 7-2-2019 about 11:40 am I experienced a female nurse made a sudden loud noise (combining sort of roaring and horselaugh ) while passing by a very old patient with heart failure, it's short of basic medical specialty !! besides, I saw hard-working ones as well.

According to <The Liberty times> (2015-03-30) and <The New Lens>( https://www.thenewslens.com/article/14636), The ratio of nurses and patients in NTUH emergency room, 1: 14+, is same as that of a "combat hospital", which worsen the relationships among patients, nurses and medical Doctors.

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◆ United Daily, 5-6-2019: One dietitian props the hospital up, hard working environment results in 60% of dietitians chose not to work in the hospitals

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         ◆ <United Daily News> (3-3-2017) : Unlike developed countries, Taiwan legislation has not protected nurses/patients ratio.
         ◆ <The Liberty Times> 5-12-2017 : New labor policy ("一例一休") worsen the the ratio of nurse and patients in medical centers and regional hospitals.
       ◆ <United Daily News> (12-31-2013, <台灣醫安問題須誠實面對> >) : The ratio of nurse and patients, 1:20, was heard many times...

◆ <The Liberty Times> reported at 5-11-2015 - Taiwan hospitals' means for exploitation of nurses include :

                  ◆ Voluntary Servitude Contract to sell oneself (綁約賣身契) , heavy work only get you salary lower than that in previous year ...
                    ◆ Nurses were asked to give up vacation for overtime works, or for on-call working a shift on duty, all these extra working hours were converted to an outcry price, may be as low as NT50 (USD1.7 or so) per hour.
                    ◆   performance bonuses (「績效獎金」), allowance (「工作津貼」) , faked salary on book... all became hospitals' weapon to control nurses. Nurses can't get overtime payment, which can not be found by routine labor-checks. ( 加班沒有加班費，而勞動檢查也永遠查不到的結果。)

◆ Fake nurses/patients ratio. The Evaluation of The Effectiveness of The Hospitals by government can not find something like nurse working in the name of technician, nurse-license was used for fake statistics...

        details pls. ref. to Taiwan enrolled nurses general union (護理工會) and Taiwan Labour Front (台灣勞工陣線) web-site http://labor.ngo.tw/news/news-now/189-news20150511 or Liberty Times http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1313447
       ◆ The capital (management) side completely controls unreasonable payments, in spite of that the government reiterated on-call time should be count for working hours, but investigation this time found 96% nurses' on-call time has not included in their wages, Taiwan's hospitals seriously violated the law. (違法的問題非常嚴重。)
        ◆ Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批) at 9-27-2015: The ratio of nurses and patients in Taiwan's hospitals is absurd. (都太離譜了)
        ◆ <The China Times > (1-12-2016): Taipei City found all hospitals it check violated the labor law.
        ◆ <The Liberty Times>, <The China Times >, <The United Daily> at 12-30-2015: 87% of Taiwan's large hospitals had surplus in their balance sheet of 2015, but staff/labor costs decreased from 45.86% downto 40.06%, medical staffs are still in a "Sweat factory" status, hospitals used their surplus on "arms race" - aesthetic medicine, Proton Therapy, Heavy particle therapy, high-end medical check, The da Vinci sys., etc. to attract people to pay on their own dimes so that hospitals will have more surplus, besides, medical resources concentrate on metro large hospitals, it's unfair to remote countryside patients, in the future, it is expected to exhibit a polarizing outcome ― middle and smaller sized hospitals likely will closed, only small clinics and metro hospitals left or survived.

ps: TW amended the law http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20170407000409-260114

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◆ The possibility of that some nurses (and some top MDs, even the admin. sys) of major medical-center hospitals are political lap-dogs can not be excluded. They are not just doing nothing (join protests) to avoid damaging their future, but doing the powerful's bidding to create a 'bright future'.

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★8. Abuse or too-little-use medical resources

        <Liberty Times>, 8-19-2019, headline news: "CT scan, MRI were used for mild cases - getting cold or sore throat", Taiwan government corrects hospitals using CT and MRI in the number 130 thousands for mild cases, the "abusing" rate of 92 hospitals is too high.
        <Ettoday>, 8-19-2019: In 2017, one person did CT scan 24 times in a single year. <United Daily News> (12-31-2013) by president of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center : after a surgical operation, a woman cried piteously 8 hours for belly pain and then died, there's no any medical doctor came to take a look at her even her families look for help 9 times before her death... For saving some money, some hospital admitted using recycle-bag for tube-feeding ...
         <Apple Daily> of Taiwan ( 6-22-2015 ) points out in some cases acesodyne (painkiller止痛藥) is not allowed to be given for some terminally ill cancer patients in Hospice-palliative care after his having signed a give-up-emergency-treatment agreement. It's wrong that hospitals think money higher than humanity.

<The Liberty Times> reported at 5-26-2015 that Taipei mayor Ko expressed Taiwan's hospitals abused ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), taking National Taiwan University Hospital as example, till now ECMO has been used for 1800 times, 10% of them won't save those patients' life - from the first place they should know.
<Exposing the truth of modern medical circle in Taiwan>: Taiwan's M.D.s are accustomed to give patients lots of prescription medicine more than needed.

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★9. lots of FAKE medical records

<United Daily News> (12-31-2013, <台灣醫安問題須誠實面對> >) article <Facing Taiwan's medical safety issue> by Dr. Huang D.F., president of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center : In addition to those fakes created by Taiwanese government and enterprises, one more "fake" has been hidden in extreme dark side - that's Taiwan's medical record. The patient's record usually is used for medical studies and NHI benefit package, it look OK in form, but the quality is from bad to worse. Taiwanese government usually see only with one eye on or turn a blind eye to fake or cheating things as long as you have contribution to Taiwan's GDP...

<United Daily News> (12-11-2013, <台灣假的病歷誰來監督?> (章貢):) : Fake medical records of patients include - 1. made by copy & paste way, 2. evading the crucial part & lacking of clinical symptom, 3. irrelevant or not speaking in details, 4. creating something from nothing (so patients will be in bad situation for any legal case in the future), 5. substituting on for another (by unqualified staffs), 6. add/delete/modify something - for evaluation, investigation or legal problems. (1.蕭規曹隨、複製貼上式 2. 避重就輕、缺乏臨床症狀 3. 牛頭馬嘴、語焉不詳 4. 無中生有、讓病人處法律劣勢 5. 移花接木式(由尚未立法的護理師等，甚至什也不是的記錄員處理拼湊 ) 6. 塗改增修式 - 遇評鑑、抽審、或法律糾紛時如此處理 ......)

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★10. completely FAKE evaluations by the government

◆ Apple Daily (6-2-2015, "完全造假的醫院評鑑" by 呂享諧M.D. http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20150602/621194/): The fake evaluations of the hospitals by government were done by officials and hospitals, those "mutual understand" fake items include hospitals employing ghost nurses and temporary nurses who will be fired after the evaluation, fake SOP, fake meeting records ... the evaluation results - different level of hospitals, may affect up to 10 billion + dollars annual income by hospitals.

◆ Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批) at 9-27-2015: 6 false shows in the evaluation of Taiwan's hospitals

False evaluations are everywhere in Taiwan, from army, fire-extinguish dept., to many other businesses... including hospitals. Since Taiwan's government informs the time for evaluation, hospitals have plenty of time to plan everything in details for a false results.

           1. In evaluation day, hospitals request rookies to take a day off or specially arrange evaluation-committee members going specific route, in there they only meet senior medical staffs.
           2. Hiring people for short term or taking administration staff into statistics make a beautiful ratio of nurse and patients.
           3. For dealing with evaluation, hospitals limit the number of outpatients, decrease the number of inpatients, and patients in emergency room waiting for a inpatient-bed.
           4. Medical doctors and nurses are busy in paper works for evaluation, decreasing the time to take care of patients.
           5. Hospitals are busy for evaluation or authentication, so as to create a false image of perfect administration and high degree of medical skill.
           6. In evaluation day, hospitals request all medical staffs give evaluation-committee members "model standard answers" (『標準答案』).

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pic above: During evaluation time, all the surgical suites in a very busy hospital were empty, Medical Doctors took one day off。
photo "Apple Daily's Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批)" 9-27-2015.

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★11. shady & shabby deals in medical circles -

● money brief from Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) exclusive interview former minister of Health, Dr, Yang C. L., rpt. of 2011/04/14 United Daily News (聯合新聞網), and 2011/04/18 The China Times (中國時報)

◆ pharmaceutical factories and opticians tried every efforts in offering all kinds of attentive services to target physicians, paying check for their going abroad and meal is just "basics", "extras" are, e.g., taking the initiative to sponsor a certain foundation, arranging local entertainment girls together with them during a medical conference in mainland China, etc. Some physicians even have a "wife" in each province of China.

◆ He was told certain price is needed for some top positions like provincial hospital president or assistant administrator.

◆ The Liberty Times (8-28-2013) : according to latest report by dept. of labor, 6 out of 21 sweatshop hospitals are state hospitals, their illegal deeds include giving no overtime payments for overtime workers, etc.

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● politics

◆ Hospital's long-standing malady that Dr. Yang (楊志良) exposed is just the tip of the iceberg, ugly dark sides of Shiroi Kyotō (Taiwan's hospital and medical doctors) and pharmaceutical factories are inseparable, closely linked. Pharmaceutical factories focus on public hospitals joint purchasing projects (聯合採購標案), major battle fields are 退輔標、軍聯標、署聯標、市聯標, hospital's president actually is the key man in the shadow, although avoiding purchasing things on the surface. Besides, political connections help, hospitals usually buy politicians, say, legislator's letter.

             ◆    Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批) at 9-27-2015: "Terrible white terror in Taiwan medical services"
                    1. "Auditing & expense/budget controlling" becomes inspection-committee members' means for revenge (核刪成為審查委員報復手段)
                    2. The reasons for cut off some expenses is groundless, leading to patients missing best time for curing. ( 核刪理由"莫須有"錯失治療黃金時間)
                    3. In order to push patients to pay on their own dimes, inspection-committee members not only cancel some expenses, but also double deduct it (倒扣).
                    4. Encouraging using drugs/medicines made in Taiwan, influencing medical doctors' judgement and decision.
                    5. Taiwan government may blames inspection-committee members sometimes cut off some expenses without good reasons, but, actually, committee members just followed the government's "hint" to do it.

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pic left: "complicated relationships between medical businesses and politicians?", photo "Apple Daily's Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批)" 9-27-2015

pic. right: "White terror in Taiwan's medical field" , photo "Apple Daily's Next TV (壹電視/正晶限時批)" 9-27-2015

◆ I personal encountered some suspected cases concerning collusion between medical staffs and politics ...

★12. clinic's out-patients VS. hospitalized patients

● " In Taiwan's health-care systems, senior attending physicians or top MDs treat out-patients in mild condition， junior (or rookie) Resident Doctors treat hospitalized patients in serious condition， that's put the cart before the horse ! ". Taipei mayor Ko criticized。

● Most patients needed to be hospitalized are the elderly with multiple diseases for years , however, Taiwanese Medical Doctors in various divisions specialize in one field only， and only like to pick up one-disease patients。 Hence, some patients stayed in emergency room for 28+ days and then left or just died on the wheel-bed 。 / for details about 7D ntuh, following "Hospital Medicine" system's footsteps. Around 2012, about 20-50% hospitalized patients were taken care by the hospitalists, in the US. pls. read <天下雜誌> no. 498 (2012-05-29 ) https://www.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5033140
● Sometimes you may have clinic MDs or senior or top physicians, but most of time they are quite busy .....

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★13. Discriminations in Taiwanese hospitals

● Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV) Commonhealth Magazine (康健雜誌, issue No.184) <Some specific patients bear the stamp of suffering >: Some patients go to hospitals out-of-town, or even go to several clinics each in different hospital ―― what's patients' secret behind ? the answer is , e.g., some Melancholia (depressive disorder) patients do it this way, another case is when some physician found his patient is Psychiatry patient as well, he showed impatient and pushed his patient to go consulting Psychiatry M.D., so that this patient feel himself a sub-patient in medical service。 (brief, author：吳佳璇)
● Taiwan University Hospital , "The jewel in the crown of health care providers", is suspicious of discriminating elderly people (or all people) living alone in medical examination - stress-free anesthesia colonoscopy, NTUH staffs seem not welcome this group of people, who are not allowed to do this examination alone, or even accompanying by another old people or a young household caregivers who is specialized at taking care the elderly. NTUH does not allow the examinee to do anesthesia colonoscopy unless a younger family member coming together. This unreasonable condition is not written in the signatured agreement, and never let examinee know in advance, furthermore, it's ruled by men, not a 'institutionalization', which means some cases are fine, some others may not be permitted. (ps: On Dec. 2016, NTUH added "Together with a family member or a friend is a must for examinee to do anesthesia colonoscopy " on the agreement) ps: FTV HD 民視台灣台 , <新聞大解讀> , 3-1-2018 8:52pm: Taiwan will enter a "zero families age"("零家屬時代"), 40% are the elder in 2050.

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★14. only 3 min. for each patient

       Newsweek (2024's World Best Hospitals ) values patient/doctor ratio and patients' general satisfaction, both are bad in Taiwan.
       CommonHealth (2023): Too many patients including those with minor illness or just for chronic continuous prescription go to medical centers or big hospitals therefore patients suffered a very crowded environment or a long queue. By contrast, in Japan, only those with Clinic Referral Form can go to big hosiptals.
       The United Daily News (聯合新聞) 1-3-2017 : How can those M.D.s spent 2 minutes on those patients with complicated or serious condition... Fast medical diagnosis (100+ patients per clinic) may increase the probability of incorrect judgments... (黃達夫)

Dr. Ye Ching-chuan (former leader of health government, 葉金川) blog (6-30-2009): Taiwanese go to clinics 15 times per year, 3 minutes with M.D. each time, in contrast, Americans go to clinics 4 times per year, 15 minutes each time；TTV(台視常春, 3-1-2011): Taiwanese patients talk with M.D. for 3 minutes only (看診3分鐘，該跟醫生說甚麼...)；CTS(華視, 5-19-2010): A popular M.D. in Kaohsiung spent 1.4 minutes in average on each patient...

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★15. Half failed to pass health inspection

The Liberty Times (11-29-2016): Half of random-selected hospitals failed to pass (Food and Beverage Sanitation or environmental Sanitation ) health inspection.

★16. Fake medicine
Apple Daily 2-24-2017, 3-7-2017 : Crestor (a most popular blood-lipid lowering drug by AstraZeneca), ranking No.1 sales-amount covered by Health Insurance in 2016, was faked by illegal Syndicate. Since the circumstance is from bad to worse, the government declared to retrieve all Crestor.
The Liberty Times , 3-15-2017 : The leader of National Health Insurance stated medical people pointed out faking drug is because the price of brand or regular medicines was cut down to bottom... they choose to fake the most popular drug if have to be illegal...

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★17. "patients centered" or "money centered" ?

◆ news

           ● CommonHealth 2023 (commonhealth.com.tw/article/87825) : A foreign MD said Taiwan's hospitals are not "patients centered".
           ● United Daily (聯合報), 2022-9-26: The long-term care 2.0 service system has been wasting resources (this year's budget is nearly NT$ 60 billion) for many years. Moreover, one manager (個管師) of the total care center (共照中心) is responsible for at least 500 cases, and the average number of supporting specialists taking care is 40 cases which is Eight to ten times that in Japan, not to mention the quality of service. udn.com/news/story/7339/6639906?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7339_pulldownmenu_v2 伊佳奇／認知症整合照護專家、長照政策研究者
           ● United Daily (聯合報), 9-27-2019: Taiwanese patients with serious disease get no Doctors... (pic. below)

● United Daily (聯合報), 11-10-2019: Long-term care to home, only 270 MDs from entire country joined


	pic.: a great policy ! but coverage rate of assignments is only about 1/100, MDs complain little incomes ... ...

● The China Times, (中國時報, 7-4-2017) : former vice president of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH): many hospitals focus on making money, "patients centered" is nothing but a slogan, if the leaders fail to convince people by virtue, and M.D.s fail to raise their moral standards. (台大醫院前副院長"走火入魔的白色巨塔"批評: 台灣許多醫院的管理只是為收入，管理者應以德服人，醫師如不隨時努力精進，『病患為中心』只是口號。)

● Apple Daily 6-17-2017: Taiwan's orthopedic surgeon was accused of kicking out an old lady patient with bed sore (pressure sores), that Plastic Surgery M.D. was criticized only to save patient's face look instead of patient's life.


	pic.: a patient with bed sore was kicked by an orthopedic surgeon from Taipei to JiaEe city, news report hospital always loss money to treat this kind of disease

◆ experiences NTUH as an example

● top MD professor: The reason the patient needs to use oxygen-breathing apparatus this time is that her heart is too large... ☉ patient: as large as before ? ☉ top MD professor: I don't know ( he was not willing to look at Ap views / images in his computer ) ☉ Cardiologist professors in later days proved it's about same size as before

● top MD professor A: lung atelectasis ( written in medical record ) ☉ top MD professor B: I don't see any lung atelectasis ☉ NTUH ap view report writes no atelectasis
● NTUH forced a venerable aged patient to leave by 11 am, even she had one underwear only, nothing in lower body (NTUH contract care-taker had not asked patient's families to bring her pants by mistake ...) , NTUH's phrase was "that's the rule to leave by 11 am, like all the hotels" ... "we don't have document on hand, you can ask NTUH leader (director) for the doc." After protests, NTUH still removed the patient from the bed to a small bed-cart at the corner of the one-bed ward, and then started to clean the room by bleach which may harm patient's lung.

● NTUH nurse turned off both oxygen-breathing apparatus and the machine monitoring patient's blood oxygen level that working for a very old hospitalized patient who needs both for 24 hours, this may endanger patient once her blood oxygen level down to 90- , 80- ......, the machine hence can't generate alarm-noise to warn the Doctors and nurses.

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◆ pic. above: wheel-beds (strykers) are everywhere in NTUH's walkways, looks like a "combat hospital" / photo in National Taiwan Univ. Hospital (台大醫院).
◆ pic. below: Big board in NTUH: you may take 10 days to get a ward... suggest - try another hospital ! 7-7-2019
◆ pic. below right: treatment in emergency room more than 48 hours - top 5 rankings / source: gov. (健保署).

★18. all of us are unwanted clients

● United Daily, 2-3-2018, https://udn.com/news/story/11319/2966710
Taiwan's hospitals have an unspoken rule ― inpatients staying in ward more than 28 days might be "forced" to be discharged from hospital, many turn into "unwelcome tramp" wandering from one hospital to another, although there's no this kind of laws or regulation made by the government. Most of these sad people are stroke patients.

● <China Times Weekly> (8-28-2015 ~ 9-3-2015, No.1958) article "The crisis of Taiwan's Medical & Health services" (by Taipei City Hospital leader /黃勝堅) : "When medical solutions become too commercialized, and lose humanistic care and respect, sooner or later, Taiwan's medical systems will face a severe challenge of breaking down..."。

● impact of DRGs (new version of insurance) ― negatively affect patients in Taiwan as below:

◆ Patients with multi diseases may become unwanted clients (medical negligence, Chinese namely "人球") - hospitals may filter patients, reject some or deal with their disease only one at one time - hence patients waste lots of time for it..

◆ The number of items to be paid at patient's own expense increases if you want same quality of treatment as before or a complete & precise medical examination.

◆ Patients may be asked to discharge earlier even they have not healed or recovered completely, if you 'd like to be in ward for more days, pay on your own dimes, because DRGs push hospitals to discharge patients 3~5 days after treatments or operation, otherwise the hospital will absorb additional cost ― which means losing money.

◆ Do those examinations only for the item why the patient is hospitalized at this time.

◆ If a patient needs 2 surgeries, hospital will find some "reasons" to push the patient leave hospital after his/her 1st operation, then the patient pays extra efforts to be in hospital again for his 2nd operation.

◆ If a M.D. 's patients' amounts of medical expense covered by insurance are over the budget's upper limit, this MD physician's "performance" (績效) will be reviewed or examined by his hospital.

Details pls. ref. to <今周刊>(Business Today) 10-31-2014

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★19. sexual harassment in hospitals

         ◆ The Apple Daily 3-17-2021: Sexual Harassments in the workplace between medical staffs and patients, Doctors and nurses, MDs and MDs have happened again and again, the medical circle has rarely concerned structural factor , and has not systematically improved the strategy to protect all victims in the hospitals。tw.appledaily.com/forum/20210317/WREUOIEGRRCK7ELGRFLHDWOABM/ 廖郁雯
         ◆ The Apple Daily 7-17-2019: A MD of Tri-service General Hospital is suspected of lifting a female patient's clothe and poking her breast in a private room without any female nurse there.
         ◆ The China Times <中國時報> 3-8-2018: according to investigation/survey, 80% female physicians met sexual harassment, ... a female physician of Cathy Hospital had different views and said the percentage of harassment to nurse probably higher because they are young and in lower status (8成女醫曾遭性騷擾, 女醫反應兩極 ... brief)

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★ 20. Court Doctors

Apple Daily, 4-27-2018: Taiwan got only 3 court Doctors / legal medical experts can do operations.

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★ 21. inspection failure - hospital & long-term care problems
United Daily, 8-14-2018: Taipei Hospital big fire, in recent 6 years, 5 fires, 36 died, 185 wounded in nursing home (long term care facilities).

Apple Daily, 8-14-2018: 6 fires in 7 years.

★22. MDs and patients taped each other secretly for self-protection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Af-XbYICxI TVBS 7-12-2015 & 5-25-2015

https://news.tvbs.com.tw/life/581627

https://news.ebc.net.tw/news.php?nid=73470

https://www.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=5076858

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★ 23. The quality of air in hospitals / best hospitals like NTUH failed to pass bacterial concentration tests

pic: UDN(聯合報) 3-16-2019 : The quality of air in hospitals is bad / best hospitals like NTUH failed to pass bacterial concentration tests

★ 24. Major medical malpractices happened again and again

◆ <United Daily>, (11-18-2018): Major medical malpractices and patient safety events happened again and again, medical reform group suggested legislating a new law.

◆ <The China Times> (11-17-2018) : Ridiculous mistakes ! Tzu-Chi Hospital's nurse took injection of urine (as Normal-Saline) mixed with albumin to a patient, 10+ days later, that Cirrhosis patient died.
◆ <The China Times> (6-24-2018) : A nurse of NTUH connected wrong Hemodialysis pipeline (tap running water replaced bacteria-free medical water) to patients doing kidney dialysis in ICU (Intensive Care Unit) resulting in 1 weak died a few days later, and several may be affected. Dirty water into blood vessels may caused Sepsis, NTUH accepted too many patients and lacked S.O.P. for risk management. <Liberty times>, 7-6-2018, <Apple Daily>, 7-7-2018: Chinese Medical University Hospital had similar mistake at 2-23-2018, one patient was affected, National CK Univ. Hospital at 5-24-2018 misused bleach to do kidney dialysis, fortunately, the machine was shut down for abnormal detective signal, National Taiwan University Hospital at May 25 & 26, 2018 affected 6 patients, 2 patients died, not caused by this, based on initially judgment.

◆ <Apple Daily>, 11-18-2018: Mackay Medical Hospital (新竹馬偕醫院) gave wrong vaccine to 4 newly born babies in Feb. 2018. Tri-Service General Hospital (三總內湖院) connected wrong intravenous equipment (pipe) to a patient in Feb. 2014.

★ 25. Expensive instrumentation

Taiwan's hospitals invested huge money on expensive instrumentations, e.g., Proton Therapy (質子治療), heavy particle therapy (重粒子治療), Da Vinci surgery, etc, but their curative effects still can not be proven yet, or some of them are only good for some rare diseases, children's cancers. Traditional Photon therapy is better for most cancer diseases. Expensive instrumentations have not risen the survival rate of many cancers. ref. to UDN, 7-1-2019 https://health.udn.com/health/story/7397/3901682

https://wd.vghtpe.gov.tw/Cancer_Cen/Fpage.action?muid=1652&fid=1244

★ 26. personal data

◆ <United Daily>, editorial (3-31-2019): Taiwan plans to sell general public's personal data and digital human rights (e.g., people's medical health data without giving any notice ) ... Taiwan is a less developed country on personal-data protection (brief https://udn.com/news/story/7338/3728815)

★ 27. medical circle in political battle-field


	pic.: <The Lancet> 2019 printed a paper and marked Taiwan as part of China, the editors insisted it's one China policy of United Nations and WHO, but later printed a protest letter by Taiwan's medical government and some famous MDs - "Taiwan's health-care system and administration are independent of China". source : LTN, head-page news 7-17-2019

★ 28. care-givers in hospitals

● Yahoo News, 2022-9-6 : The quality of outsourcing of hospital care-taking system is low, long-term care-takers should be trained. The current professional long-term care-taking manpower is obviously insufficient, therefore the government should encourage middle-aged and older people to work in this field; a Law-maker questioned that the caregivers in Veterans General Hospital (N. HsinChu) did not have long-term care qualification, her carelessness led to a suspected death. (tw.news.yahoo.com/醫院看護外包品質低-應增訓長照專員-060034986.html)
● 健康遠見, 2018-11-8 : care-giving costs are so expensive, but the quality varies. Some hospitals engage in care-taking business regardless of their qualifications or certificates, training experience. There are also many “hidden rules” in wards. For example, almost no one is willing to take half-day job, extra charges for patients in the isolated ward and rehabilitated patients. We should learn the system in advanced countries in Europe and the United States. (health.gvm. com.tw/article/65708)

● UDN (聯合報), 8-12-2018, headlines: "run away" foreign laborers hide in hospitals to be care-givers lacking of pro. quality ...
Lots of patients in hospital wards or emergency room need care-givers, e.g., National Taiwan Univ. Hospital has 3 contract companies each offering hundreds of care givers, but still not enough for so many urgent needs , therefore, you may find ad. cards everywhere in the wards or hospital, one the floor, or in the closets, etc, to provide you with illegal foreign laborers in the price of about NT1600 working 24 hours, or legal local women (some are red Chinese) asking NT2200 per day, they may want higher price NT2300 for sleeping on hard chairs if the patients have not been hospitalized. It seems to me as a necessary crime, however, you may have risks, e.g., very high amount of fine penalty given by the police, some legal care-giver may collect money even working less than 15 hours ...

● 報導者, 2018/11/7: In terms of care-taking fees, the central Taiwan is generally the highest, the northern Taiwan follows. the care-taker fee in hospital (中榮、中國附醫) is NT$2,400 ; The feein NTUH, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Cathay, 亞東 is NT$ 2,200; The fee in National Cheng Kung University Hospital, and Kaohsiung Chang Gung mem. Hospital isNT$ 2,000 .
● However, according to my experience at the end of Aug., 2022, in the emergency room of National Taiwan University Hospital, it is very difficult to get a care-taker, after 30+ phone-calls eventually I hired a male Taiwanese care-giver in the price of NT3,300 per day, and a few days later he quitted the job because of seeing patients around us detected CovID positive day by day. Fortunately, I almost recovered at that time (the MDs are good and Colonoscopy, Gastroscopy, Ultrasound examination are arranged very quickly; in total I only paid the hospital USD 20+ for 5 days stay, very cheap, one thing bad is I have all reasons to suspect some unknown people intruded my ward while sleeping in the midnight, ripped my N95 face-mask off and threw it to the floor - very dangerous move - Omicron can be transmitted by the air )

★ 29. male nurses VS. female dignity

● "Male nurses and the protection of female dignity" (NCBI, Dec. 2010), "Male nurses attending to female patients (nudity) is 'morals vs. ethics'", etc, are issues in the US, certainly, should be a hot issue in Taiwan, a more conservative country. In NTUH (2019), some wards are nice to arrange same gender patients in one room, in principle, but, some NTUH ward was inflexible at all, they didn't care female patient's objections, still assigned male nurses ( the number is extremely small compared to huge number of female nurses ) to female patient, in most cases the number of male patients suppose is about the same as that of female patients. TTV (台視), 10-29-2012 "尿失禁怎麼辦": even aged people may be very shy - refuse other people to see their private part ...

★ 30. health insurance benefits VS. health

● When a patient denied a whole body CT scan suggested by the physician because of the risk of contrast medium, then the MD denied the patient's alternative suggestion - abdomen & pelvic cavity ultrasound and chest CT scan without contrast, even the patient was willing to pay the costs, this NTUH MD's reason is the hospital applying for National Health Insurance benefits might be denied by the gov. However, another ward's MD (Chest Hsu) of NTUH is much flexible and nice - the patient can do MRI without contrast (July, 2019) to find out the problem. So, hope you are lucky.

★ 31. Taiwanese M.D. crime rate global No. 1

● TVBS 2012/07/27: Taiwanese M.D. were accused easily and frequently, hence "crime rate" is world No.1 --- In average, one Medical Doctor was accused per day, one was convicted per month.

● Commonwealth Publishing Group (遠見) magazine, ettoday.net/news 2012/07/11: The conviction rate (preliminary trial , district court judgment) of Taiwanese physicians is 24.5％.

★ 32. big vs. small

United Daily's Weekly 11-24-2019: Many Taiwanese only trust so-called "best-known" Doctors (名醫), such as professors or dept leader MDs, however, 80~90% patients don't need them. Besides, senior Doctors may have high sensibility on judgments, but new blood Doctors are more familiar with new medicines and new operations.

★ 33. large hospitals vs. small clinics

● UDN 11-27-2019: 70% Taiwanese think large hospitals are more professional, nearly 50% Taiwanese can't tell severity of illness index therefore go to large hospitals anyway.
● Taiwanese gov.: patients with serious disease should go to large hospitals.


pic.: The temple inside National Taiwan University Hospital is "God for protection". the pic. is a cancer patient with her medical record on hand praying. The TV 據寰宇財經 reported at 11-6-2020 that a patient says NTUH MD failed to cure her, but the God did it.	pic.: A row of wooden or clay-made "God" in a temple in Cathay Hospital (國泰醫院) for the public Are Taiwanese too superstitious ??
SETN '17, 寰宇財經 11-6-2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYM0w99zXso

★ 34. CT scan, MRI

Take NTUH as an example, there're more than once the CT scan report failed to be completed within 7-10 days ( the latest one is 20+ days in early 2021) before the Doctor time. As for MRI report, once another hospital found something important that NTUH report missed - so sometimes you may need 2nd opinion from different hospital.

★ 35. ambulance - emergency room

● The Liberty Times (自由時報 talk.ltn.com.tw/article/breakingnews/3957062 2022-6-11 ): a widely known news - a two-year-old child (恩恩) was "delayed" for 81 minutes by emergency ambulance systems. However, Taiwan's current 119 emergency system is doing very well, and the quality of the ambulance personnel is also very high. The general rule is that the nearest ambulance personnel will be dispatched within 5 minutes after receiving the report. Especially for the fifth level of first aid, such as suffocation, convulsion, coma, or cardiac arrest, it must takes 5 minutes to apply full-scale treatment, even start first aid in the ambulance, such as electric shock, CPR. There is no reason to request a hospital bed before sending an ambulance. If you need to be hospitalized and there is no confirmed hospital bed, you can immediately contact other responsible hospitals for transfer. In short, the ambulance comes first, save the life first. But, all these change just because of the CovID epidemic? (brief)

●According to my experience at the end of August, the ambulance came very quickly, but the ambulance staffs had many "opinions", such as - NTUH (National Taiwan Univ. Hospital) definitely has no ward or bed for you, so must send to the another hospital that I have never heard of instead of NTUH I always went to, otherwise please take a taxi by yourself. Until I offered NTD 500, they agree to send me to NTUH, after arriving there, I had a wheel-bed (strykers) immediately, then the staffs did not accept my money.

★ 36. Nursing home

Sometimes, the MD may advise the elderly goes to nursing home after discharging from hospital. But the quality of nursing home in Taiwan varies.

mirrormedia.mg/story/20180618soc013/ 2018-6-19: The evaluation is fake / the evaluation system is only implemented on hardware equipments, and the quality of service is difficult to see from the evaluation-results. cw.com.tw/article/5087334 2018-01-03: News of overcharges, fires, and abuses in nursing homes have been heard from time to time. Why is the government's assessment not effective? Why don't we take the example of Japan, the United States, and Australia's evaluation system? businesstoday.com.tw/article/category/151139/post/201801110016/ 2018-1-11: The elderly people may become angry, lose weight, refuse care-takers, even get into a state of depression, all these are because of not being used to the environment of group living in the nursing home - the elderly have lost their "freedom" .

nDaily Mail (UK), 2022-9-14: A nursing home in Taiwan has been forced to apologise for hiring a half-naked stripper to perform for pensioners in wheelchairs. Video shows the stripper thrusting her breasts into a pensioner's face whilst shaking her bottom...spreading her legs and touching her crotch . The elderly resident, enjoying the turn of events...touching the woman's breasts. The care home said they wanted to lift the spirits of the infirm residents dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11210981/Nursing-home-apologises-strippers-bingo-party-woman-lap-dances-seniors-Taiwan.html

nNew York Post, 2022-9-13: Nursing home in Taiwan hires stripper for seniors in wheelchairs. The man in wheelchair doesn't appear to mind, however, and can be seen squeezing the woman’s assets as she enthusiastically writhes her body. Other nursing home residents clapped along enthusiastically, seeming to relish the raunchy show. Video: Nursing home apologises for 'strippers and bingo' party after woman lap-dances on seniors in Taiwan | Daily Mail Online

★ 37. patients satisfaction

UDN 11-27-2019: Taiwanese satisfaction about Taiwan health-care system : 19% satisfy the price they pay，8% satisfy medical quality protection， 2% satisfy medical personnel services， overall, 89.7% Taiwanese satisfy health care system, but only 30% medical field people satisfy it. (brief)

★ 38. CovID-19 in Taiwan

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Aug. 31 asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/China-slips-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-with-fresh-lockdowns Sept. 9, 2022 rankings of main countries in Asia & Pacific
World Rank	Asia Rank	Country/region	World Rank	Asia RK	Country/region
2	1	Vietnam	33	10	Saudi Arabia
3	2	Cambodia	40	11	Mongolia
5	3	Qatar	50	12	China
11	4	UAE	52	13	Australia
14	5	S. Korea	52	13	Malaysia
19	6	Singapore	54	15	Pakistan
22	7	Bangladesh	57	16	India
27	8	New Zealand	57	16	Taiwan
31	9	Nepal	61	18	Hong Kong
Taiwan - falling infections and eased anti-COVID policies. Taiwan is trying to reopen its borders by resuming visa-free entry for visitors from the U.S., Europe and some other departure points, starting next week. 　 China Times》editorial, 2022-9-7: All of Taiwan's CovID-19 policies have been lagging behind, much slower than other countries. Now Taiwan orders BA.1 vaccines, an outdated model of the next-generation vaccine. Why is the government not willing to purchase the most updated vaccine targets BA.5? Is there any "calculation" under table ?? chinatimes.com/opinion/20220907005076-262101?chdtv

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Jul. 31 asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Japan-tumbles-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-as-infections-surge Aug. 6, 2022 rankings of main countries in Asia & Pacific
World Rank	Asia RK	Country/region	World Rank	Asia RK	Country/region
2	1	Cambodia	47	13	Mongolia
4	2	Vietnam	52	14	New Zealand
5	3	UAE	53	15	Hong Kong
6	4	Qatar	58	16	Thailand
13	5	S. Korea	62	17	Indonesia
15	6	Saudi Arabia	62	17	Laos
20	7	Bangladesh	62	17	Pakistan
30	8	China	62	17	Philippines
35	9	Malaysia	69	21	Australia
40	10	Singapore	74	22	Myanmar
44	11	India	74	22	Sri Lanka
44	11	Nepal	79	24	Taiwan

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Cambodia-Vietnam-top-COVID-recovery-index-as-Asia-fears-new-waves 2022-7-8 comparison among main countries in Asia & Pacific
Asia's rank	world rank	country	score
1	1	Cambodia	78
2	2	Vietnam 越南	76.5
3	4	S. Korea 南韓	72.5
4	5	Qatar	72
5	6	Bangladesh	71
5	6	Nepal	71
7	11	Saudi Arabia	69.5
8	14	Sri Lanka	68
9	18	Mongolia	67.5
9	18	UAE	67.5
11	26	Malaysia	66.5
12	30	Japan	64
13	35	India	63.5
14	38	China	63
15	49	Pakistan	61.5
16	53	Hong Kong	61
16	53	Indonesia	61
16	53	Thailand	61
19	62	Philippines	60.5
20	71	Laos	59
20	71	Singapore	59
22	79	Myanmar	58
23	88	Australia	55
24	101	NZ	53
25	112	Taiwan	50
Source: The Index ranks 121 countries/regions on infection management, vaccine rollouts, and social mobility. A higher ranking indicates a country is closer to recovery with its low numbers of confirmed cases/deaths, better vaccination rates and less stringent social distancing measures; data sources include Our World in Data, Google CovID-19 Community Mobility Reports, Oxford CovID-19 Gov. Response Tracker, Cirum, and Nikkei Asia research

Nikkei CovID-19 Recovery Index, as of Jul. 31 asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-19-Recovery-Index/Japan-tumbles-in-COVID-recovery-ranking-as-infections-surge Aug. 6, 2022 rankings of main countries in Asia & Pacific
World Rank	Asia RK	Country/region	World Rank	Asia RK	Country/region
2	1	Cambodia	47	13	Mongolia
4	2	Vietnam	52	14	New Zealand
5	3	UAE	53	15	Hong Kong
6	4	Qatar	58	16	Thailand
13	5	S. Korea	62	17	Indonesia
15	6	Saudi Arabia	62	17	Laos
20	7	Bangladesh	62	17	Pakistan
30	8	China	62	17	Philippines
35	9	Malaysia	69	21	Australia
40	10	Singapore	74	22	Myanmar
44	11	India	74	22	Sri Lanka
44	11	Nepal	79	24	Taiwan
South Korea, which is also seeing a jump in infections, slipped to 13th from fourth. Elsewhere in the region, Cambodia and Vietnam continued to rank high, in second place and fourth, respectively. Taiwan's cases and deaths falling gradually.

STATISTA, 2022-4-19 Coronavirus (COVID-19) death rate in countries with confirmed deaths and over 1,000 reported cases as of April 7, 2022, by country 　 Taiwan's CovID death rate is highest among major countries in Asia & Pacific
country	Death rate(%)	Confirmed cases	number of deaths
Taiwan*	3.38	25,225	853
Indonesia	2.58	6,026,324	155,464
Sri Lanka	2.49	662,342	16,486
Cambodia	2.25	135,834	3,055
Pakistan	1.99	1,526,093	30,361
Philippines	1.61	3,680,244	59,422
Bangladesh	1.49	1,951,903	29,123
India	1.21	43,031,958	521,530
Saudi Arabia	1.2	751,404	9,053
China	0.88	1,495,380	13,098
Malaysia	0.82	4,280,591	35,192
Thailand	0.68	3,807,908	25,788
Vietnam	0.43	9,980,464	42,712
Japan	0.42	6,830,997	28,462
Laos	0.36	188,985	684
Australia	0.13	4,910,819	6,495
South Korea	0.12	14,778,405	18,381
Singapore	0.11	1,123,886	1,287
New Zealand	0.06	741,987	426
statista.com/statistics/1105914/coronavirus-death-rates-worldwide/ 2022-4-19

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking 2021-10-28
CovID status (Asia & Pacific )
Economy (country)	3-month case fatality rate %	people covered by vaccine %	overall score
Taiwan 台灣	7.7% (world worst)	47.2	53.7
Saudi Arabia	2.1	66.5	68.5
India	1.2	31.3	37.6
Malaysia	1.4	64.6	75.6
Thailand	1.1	33.1	50.6
HK	0.3	59.8	66.6
Australia	0.6	67.3	62.2
S. Korea	0.4	74.7	68.6
Japan	0.4	73.3	68.4
UAE	0.3	97.3	74.6
Singapore	0.3	87.8	57.5
New Zealand	0.1	67.4	61.5
mainland China	0	80.2	65.2
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/ score and rank by indexes: lockdown severity, flight capacity , vaccinated travel routes, people covered by vaccines Taiwan's CovID-19 Resilience Ranking at 2021-10-28 (bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/), Taiwan plunges into the bottom half of the Ranking (from No. 5 in April, down to now No. 47 ).

Bloomberg CovID Resilience Ranking 2021-9-28
CovID status
Economy (country)	3-month case fatality rate %	people covered by vaccine%	score
Taiwan	13.4% (worst worldwide)	30	56.5
Saudi Arabia	1.5	60.9	71
India	1.5	31.3	56.2
Malaysia	1.4	64.6	44.1
HK	1.1	56.8	69.8
Australia	0.5	51.8	61.8
S. Korea	0.3	58.7	68.2
Japan	0.3	62	67.3
UAE	0.3	92.3	74.7
Singapore	0.2	80.8	70
New Zealand	0.1	49.9	59.6
mainland China	0	78.4	68.8
full details : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/ score and rank by indexes: lockdown severity, flight capacity , vaccinated travel routes, people covered by vaccines

CovID Resilience Ranking, 2021-8-26
full data : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-resilience-ranking/

Asian country	ranking	people covered by vaccine	3-month case fatality rate
Singapore	8	76.7	0.4%
UAE	15	82.7	0.2%
Hong Kong	18	47.7	0.9%
Saudi Arabia	19	51.1	1.2%
China	24	70.1	0%
S. Korea	26	37.3	0.3%
New Zealand	29	28.9	0%
Australia	31	34.2	0.5%
Japan	33	47.5	0.5%
Taiwan	41	21.7	7.6%

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pic. : This websites group is ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" at 10-18-2019, 10-6-2019, 9-21-2019

ps: This websites group is ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" at 10-18-2019, 9-20-2019

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ps : This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" at 8-22-2019, 7-25-2019 in NTUH

ps: This websites group's ranked No.1 on ASK by keyword
"medical Doctors in Taiwan" , 8-22-2019

This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" at 5-21-2019

This websites group's ranked top 2 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan" at 5-19-2019;
No.1 at at 8-22-2019, 2-5-2019, 2-14-2018.

This websites group's ranked No.1 on US Google by keyword "physicians in Taiwan"
at 2-5-2019, 2-14-2018.

This websites group's ranked top 2 on US Google by keyword "Medical Doctors in Taiwan"
at 2-5-2019, 2-6-2018, 1-28-2018.

This websites group's ranked No.1 on Google by keyword "medical Doctors in Taiwan" at 5-20-2017, 4-26-2017. top 2, 2-5-2019

This sites were among top ranks by Chinese keywords "comment Taiwan hospitals" as well as "comment Taiwanese MD" on US Bing, Yahoo, US Google, etc

pic. above: No.1 "Medical Doctors in Taiwan" on China's Baidu at 2-6-2018.

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< No.1 ranks on US Google, Bing, as well as Baidu of China, Yandex of Russia,
etc, test at 2-6-2018 etc >

No.1 "Medical Doctors in Taiwan" on Yandex of Russia at 2-6-2018.

No.1 "physicians in Taiwan" on US Bing at 2-6-2018.

No.1 "medical Doctors in Taiwan" on US Yahoo at 2-17-2018.

pic. This websites group is ranked No.1 on Baidu of China by keyword "comment Taiwan hospitals" at 10-24-2019. This websites group is ranked No.1 on Baidu of China by keyword "comment hospitals in Taiwan" at 10-24-2019.

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For precise meaning pls. ref. to Taiwan's medical and health service in Chinese version

◎This web-page was ranked No. 1 on google by keyword "comment Taiwan medical doctors", tests at 4-19-2017, 6-11-2016, 9-28-2015, 9-1-2015, 8-26-2015

◎This web-page was ranked No. 1 on google by keyword "台灣醫院黑幕", 6-11-2016

◎This web-page was ranked No. 1 on google by keyword "comment Taiwan hospitals", 4-19-2017, 6-11-2016

◎This web-page was ranked No. 1 on google by keyword "台灣醫療界黑暗面", 9-28-2015, 9-9-2015

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Taiwan surgery

◎★◆ Taiwan president Tsai: Food safety problem is one of biggest challenges to Taiwan / The China Times, 8-6-2016


ps: Taiwan is a liar ?

COVID-19 vaccine boosters administered per 100 people till Feb 4, 2023

Apple Daily (9-18-2017) reported that "fake surgery" (substitute-surgeon operates illegally) did happen in Chang Gung Mem. Hospital, Taiwan.

(中榮名醫同時五台刀 涉詐欺 害婦送命 疑沒進開刀房也領獎金 /

◎★◆ Taiwan president Tsai: Food safety problem is one of biggest challenges to Taiwan / The China Times, 8-6-2016

(中榮名醫同時五台刀涉詐欺害婦送命疑沒進開刀房也領獎金 /