{"id":16774,"date":"2021-08-14T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16774"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T23:17:29","slug":"fast-doctor-house-call-service-in-tokyo-with-takes-foreign-traveler-insurance-closed-to-all-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16774","title":{"rendered":"“Japanese Only” doctors: “Fast Doctor” House Call Service in Tokyo (which takes foreign traveler insurance) closed to all foreigners due to Covid. Hippocratic Oath? UPDATE: The “Japanese Only” rule has been removed."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Another casualty of the Covid scare in Japan<\/a> has been the Hippocratic Oath<\/a>, where this English-language medical service called Fast DOCTOR (see Japanese site<\/a>, and English site<\/a>) (where a doctor will make house calls for a flat fee of 50,000 yen) is now closed to all foreigners. Screen captures of the English site follow.<\/p>\n

You can comment below about the rather odd things about the English site (including the iStock photos of non-Asian practitioners, and the testimonials at the bottom without a single recommendation in English). But the fact remains that this medical service is contravening their medical oath to treat all patients. Second, the “foreign” patients they are likely to treat (especially in this time of strict Covid checks at the border and better vaccination programs overseas) at this time are less likely to be infected by the pandemic than the average Japanese patient. Finally, it of course assumes that foreigners who read English are travelers, not Japan residents. Given all of these things that defy both good physical and social science, I wonder what kind of medical care they offer in the first place. Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A defender of these practices steps forward below to gaslight, claiming \u201cFastDoctor continues to offer its services to foreign residents of Japan.\u201d See comments section for this blog entry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Screen captures of <\/i>their English site<\/a> follow,\u00a0courtesy of EG. FYI, their Facebook page is https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fastdoctor.tokyo\/)<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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UPDATE AUGUST 29, 2021: \u00a0FastDoctor’s website has been amended to remove their “Japanese Only” rules. \u00a0I have received no notification or justification for this from the company. \u00a0(I simply rechecked their website as a followup. \u00a0But it’s gone. \u00a0File under another exclusionary sign disappearing when social shame is brought to bear<\/a>. \u00a0–Debito<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Screen capture from https:\/\/fastdoctor.jp\/global\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Another casualty of the Covid scare in Japan has been the Hippocratic Oath, where this English-language medical service called Fast DOCTOR (see Japanese site, and English site) (where a doctor will make house calls for a flat fee of 50,000 yen) is now closed to all foreigners. Screen captures of the English site follow.<\/p>\n

You can comment below about the rather odd things about the English site (including the iStock photos of non-Asian practitioners, and the testimonials at the bottom without a single recommendation in English). But the fact remains that this medical service is contravening their medical oath to treat all patients. Second, the “foreign” patients they are likely to treat (especially in this time of strict Covid checks at the border and better vaccination programs overseas) at this time are less likely to be infected by the pandemic than the average Japanese patient. Finally, it of course assumes that foreigners who read English are travelers, not Japan residents. Given all of these things that defy both good physical and social science, I wonder what kind of medical care they offer in the first place.<\/p>\n

FYI, their Facebook page is https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fastdoctor.tokyo\/
\nUPDATE: A defender of these practices steps forward below to gaslight, claiming \u201cFastDoctor continues to offer its services to foreign residents of Japan.\u201d See comments section for this blog entry.<\/p>\n

UPDATE AUGUST 29, 2021: \u00a0FastDoctor’s website has been amended to remove their “Japanese Only” rules. \u00a0I have received no notification or justification for this from the company — I simply rechecked their website as a followup. \u00a0But it’s gone. \u00a0Naming and shaming xenophobes once again works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,75,54,43,36,34,5,26,11,55,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-japanese-only-signs","category-pinprick-protests","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-tourism","category-victories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16774"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16829,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16774\/revisions\/16829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}