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The establishment of clinical epidemiology has meant the improvement of the quality and quantity of clinical science because clinical epidemiology has contributed to the process of decision making across the...
Non-anesthesiologist physicians commonly administer intravenous anesthetics for procedural sedation in Korea. However, an analysis of legal suits shows that such procedural sedation is often performed unsafely. Procedural sedation using potent...
The Medical Service Act and many other laws regulate the actions of medical professionals. Receiving rebates from pharmaceutical companies has been criticized as unethical but not punished until 2011. However,...
Medical disputes are rapidly increasing due to patients' rising awareness of their rights and greater access to medical information. Medical negligence means the breach of the duty of care based...
The use of opioids for chronic noncancer pain has increased in recent years, although evidence for its long-term effectiveness is weak and its potential for harm is significant. Most reports...
Unlike medical students, doctors-in-training (residents) are physicians who can legally provide medical treatment with a medical doctor's license obtained from Korea the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and thus they...
This study is to prepare promotional strategies of establishment of the Korea Poison Center based on the chemicals and chemical products and the database (DB) construction status of Chemical Accident...
This paper introduces the major issues related to the Health Insurance Act and the core content of recent precedents, in order to prevent health insurance arguments and to contribute to...
The ethics of medical research is an important area of physician ethics. Physicians are called to respect the life, health, and personality of human subjects. In contrast to other ethical...
Advances in deep brain stimulation (DBS) in relation to neuroimaging techniques and with intraoperative electrophysiological microrecordings and stimulations have replaced ablative procedures for medication-refractory movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease,...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common demyelinating disease affecting the central nervous system of young adults living in the western world. MS should be strongly suspected when a young...