I'd suggest that Thailand is not alone when it comes to overworked medical staff. But, 10 doctors on a morning ER shift would be considered lavish staffing in the West. Despite this, the claim is that queues still spill into corridors. Surely, that tells you the problem isn’t the number of doctors. Rather, it’s the flood of walk‑ins and referrals treating the ER as a catch‑all clinic. In Australia or the UK, nurse triage and GP gatekeeping filter out half these cases before they ever reach a doctor. Here, the system instead throws sheer manpower at the front door, and still drowns. As I see it, the bottleneck isn’t a shortage of staff, it’s actually the design, where the ER is treated as the universal intake point for everything from minor ailments to complex trauma, leaving even heavy staffing unable to keep pace.
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