China’s Greenland Group requested Jeju Province to extend the deadline for the opening of the nation’s first for-profit hospital, but the local government said it would revoke approval for the hospital.The Jeju provincial administration said in a news conference on Monday that it would hold a public hearing from Tuesday, before nullifying the business license to run a foreign medical institute
The number of Oriental medicine practitioners in the healthcare sector hit a record-breaking number of 24,560 in 2017, industry data showed. The revenue of the Oriental medicine industry surged to 9.42 trillion won ($8.36 billion), up 14.9 percent from 2015.The Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine(KIOM)’s survey from October to November last year showed that the number of doctors practicing Or
On Friday this week, the nation marks the 100th anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement, a national uprising that occurred on March 1, 1919, to fight against the Japanese colonial rule.As various sectors reexamine independence activists’ contribution to the movement, the nursing community also commemorated the late independence fighter nurses at a recent gathering. The Korean Nurs
The nursing community and their supporters gathered in Seoul to commemorate the late Park Seon-wook and Seo Ji-yoon who killed themselves due to bullying at work. They claimed that the bullying culture, called “taeum” (burn-to-ashes in Korean), was a structural issue that hospitals should address aggressively.Remembering the Park’s death a year ago, nurses and activists held a rally at Cheongg
A male medical student, who recorded a showering scene of a female student using a hidden camera two years ago, was expected to be back to school this year after finishing military service, a source said.Some other suspected that the school in Busan replaced the punishment with the offender’s serving the military for around two years, which is mandatory for all non-disabled Korean men aged 18
The local law capping the maximum weekly work hours for trainee physicians at 80 hours was effective. A recent survey found that the average weekly working hours of Korean interns and residents were below the legal limit last year.Precisely, they worked for 77.2 hours on average per week. Based on their maximum work hours, the average came at 85.63 hours.As the law limits the average weekl
Last year, the medical community came under fire for allowing unlicensed assistants to do doctors’ jobs such as leading a surgery.The situation has not changed much this year. About 92 percent of teaching hospitals were having unlicensed assistants perform various medical practices, a survey showed.The unlicensed assistants not only prescribed drugs but directly performed invasive techniqu
After a court sentenced one-year jail term on a doctor who ordered a medical device company's salesperson to perform a surgery, a patient group criticized the ruling and called it “a slap on the wrist.”The Busan District Court on Wednesday sentenced the doctor and the salesman, who was indicted for violating the Medical Service Act, imprisonment of one year and 10 months, respectively.The
The head of the Oriental medicine community pledged to have local Oriental medical schools get listed on the World Directory of Medical Schools (WDMS) again. Korean Oriental medical schools were delisted from WDMS in 2012.Choi Hyeok-yong, president of the Association of Korean Medicine, said Oriental medical schools should be included in WDMS so that Korean Oriental medicine practitioners can
The ECV (extracellular volume) values, obtained through cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are the strong indicators to predict the degree of myocardial fibrosis in patients with aortic stenosis, a local study said.Cardiology Professor Park Sung-ji and Cardiac Radiology Professor Kim Sung-mok at Samsung Medical Center’s Heart Vascular and Stroke Institute said they made such conclusion
Nurses are rushing to join an online movement to pay tribute to a deceased nurse who took her own life after being bullied at work at Seoul Medical Center (SMC).Nurses opened a website to post notes of commemoration. They also plan to hold a memorial rally in February. The online memorial site showed dozens of writings paying tribute to the deceased as of Tuesday. Nurses and nursing st
The medical community expressed shock after a survey revealed 74 percent of trainee physicians specializing in nuclear medicine, pathology, and radiation oncology said they would not recommend juniors to apply for their departments. The Korean Intern Resident Association (KIRA) on Monday unveiled the survey on trainee doctors at the three departments how much they were satisfied with the train
A trainee nursing assistant jumped her death from an apartment in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, leaving a note that she has been having a hard time.Observers raised suspicion that she might have been bullied at work in a hospital, but police said the cause of her suicide was still unclear. An officer at the Iksan Police Station told Korea Biomedical Review that the deceased’s boyfriend fou
A nurse at Seoul Medical Center has killed herself on Saturday due to alleged bullying at work, its labor union said.The public hospital’s labor union under the Seoul branch of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union said on Friday that the nurse committed suicide because of “taeum,” a common bullying culture among nurses where seniors bully juniors and newcomers. Taeum means “b
The Korean society is paying more attention to violence against physicians after a mentally ill patient stabbed Lim Se-won, a psychiatrist at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, to death.Not only doctors but trainee physicians are suffering threats from patients, according to a group of interns and residents.A trainee doctor working at a university hospital said a patient threatened to kill him just
Handok has illegally promoted Souvenaid, a new drink for mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s disease, once again, civic activists said.The advertisement was misleading the public as if the drink was a pharmaceutical product and that the ad encouraged pharmacists to perform an unlicensed medical act, they said.Barun Medicine Institute, a civic group of medical professionals, said
Five out of 10 trainee doctors said in a survey they have suffered attacks by patients or guardians. The poll came as violence against medical professionals is drawing social attention especially after a patient killed a psychiatrist in broad daylight at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital on Dec. 31. The Korean Intern and Resident Association (KIRA) on Monday released an interim result of the online sur
Since a patient’s stabbing of a psychiatrist to death, the authorities are accelerating moves to enhance penalty on violence against medical professionals.For the past several years, crimes against medical staffs at hospitals have been rising continuously.According to data from the National Police Agency, the number of assaults committed at medical institutions has steadily increased from
Shocked by a mentally ill patient’s murder of a psychiatrist, doctors are rushing to purchase self-defense weapons and share defensive tactics on their online community. Lim Se-won, the psychiatrist at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, died on Monday after being stabbed with a knife by the patient.Lim initially escaped the consultation room but could not avoid the attack of several stabs in the chest
An increasing number of flu patients are hesitating to take Tamiflu out of fear over side effects, shocked by a female teenager's jump to death after taking the drug.An owner physician of an internal medicine clinic in North Gyeongsang Province said more patients refused to take the antiviral drug after he explained about side effects.“When I explained the side effects on the central n