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...important thing in this paper is the verification of the threshold effect, not the estimated numbers,” said Dr. Naoki Kondo, another author of the study...
...numbers presented are inherently estimations because of the differences between the studies analyzed, said Kondo, who is a professor at the University of Yamanashi in Japan...
...those aged 75 or older will reach 22 million, or about 19% of the projected total population, compared to 13 million today - the situation is not likely to improve anytime soon. The need for emergency transportation jumped 50% between 1996 and 2006, and 108% for the elderly. One solution, Kondo says, is to increase the number of doctors, which, given the fierce competition for medical school slots in Japan, will take time despite the fact that Japan has fewer doctors and nurses than the average developed nation, as ranked by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. "It will...
...nurses, by increasing their numbers and training them to take on more responsibilities. "A medical professional should be in a position to find a hospital that can do an emergency" treatment, rather than ask ambulance staff - who, she says, are not medical professionals - "to keep making calls in vain." Kondo agrees that allowing trained nurses and paramedics more freedom to act in emergency situations could help. "I'm pretty critical of the fact that doctors have such a monopoly over any kind of diagnosis and treatment," says Kondo. "In this regard, Japan needs to go in the U.S. route...
...pace of change is slow - both inside and outside the medical field. "Even though doctors say they're lacking the absolute numbers, they're protective of their turf and don't want masses of nurses and others taking up their business," says Kondo. "Fundamentally, you're touching on something deeply political in Japan." And unfortunately, it's the people they are trying to help who are paying the price...