"If that's not labor, then what is?" Where is Japan's medical care going? Dr. Kawamura (pseudonym) talks about the reality of on-duty work for doctors.

"It's a balance of accounts. It's become a loophole, a loophole,'' he says. "Far from being a'reform', in the end, doctors as workers will be even less protected,'' he adds. "No one knows how busy I have been during the day or how busy in the evening"