Timeline for Is it customary to tip medical doctors in Taiwan with expensive bottles of liquor?
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 4:29 | vote | accept | yuritsuki | ||
| Oct 6, 2022 at 5:37 | comment | added | user4188 | See mcdaniel.hu/halapenz-plague-hungarian-healthcare-finally-cure for the Hungarian version. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 2:14 | comment | added | Taladris | @DmitryGrigoryev: this is a modern form of bribe. Most developed countries have laws against bribes, so the classic form of bribe (giving money in exchange of a favor) has been replaced by gifts (it is more difficult to prove that a gift is to pay for a favor and not a genuine gesture). For example, I am teaching and researching in South Korea and I regularly receive emails from my administration to remind me and my colleagues that gifts from students are forbidden. It was very common in the past for teachers to receive money or expensive gifts in exchange for letters of recommendation. | |
| Oct 6, 2022 at 0:05 | comment | added | bk2204 | It should be pointed out that if the doctor is employed or paid by a public agency, this is almost certainly an illegal bribe under laws about bribing foreign officials, such as Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (or the U.S. or U.K. equivalents) if the OP doesn't live in Taiwan, even if this were legal in Taiwan. Penalties are usually severe. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 20:16 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @alamar It's not a bribe only if people go to the hospital once in their lifetime or their doctor's lifetime, whichever comes first. If you come more often than that, valuable gifts get you a better service than what the doctor provides to the poorer patients. Which is indeed a bribe. | |
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| Oct 5, 2022 at 17:14 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | @alamar Did you read the article I linked to? Also the researchers behind that article use the term 'bribe'. By examining media coverage, they found that the payments were 'portrayed as a necessary part of gaining initial access to care' and that patients were 'worrying that doctors paid by a third party will not feel obliged to give quality care'. If you pay in the belief that it is required to get proper care or be treated at all, I don't see why the term 'bribe' is used incorrectly here. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 12:55 | comment | added | alamar | @yuritsuki This is customarily done when you are discharged from the aftercare. You may also be inclined to thank the nurses in the same (but significantly reduced) fashion. Not sure about the Taiwan specifics, though :) | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | yuritsuki | @alamar There is also a small but underlying worry that if I do not "tip" the doctor after the surgery is performed, the aftercare treatment may not be done properly or to the best of their abilities. Which renders the gift as still some sort of "bribe" | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 10:52 | comment | added | alamar | It's not a bribe (at least in layman terms) if you customarily do it after the treatment. | |
| Oct 5, 2022 at 9:02 | history | answered | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |