Specialized hospitals are drawing attention as the medical gap is prolonged over the increase in the..
Specialized hospitals are drawing attention as the medical gap is prolonged over the increase in the number of medical school students by 2,000. Patients whose surgery has been postponed due to medical gaps in the tertiary university hospital are visiting secondary general hospitals and specialized hospitals.
In particular, specialized hospitals have recently come to recognize that patients receiving medical treatment at specialized hospitals are more friendly and receive higher medical services than university hospitals because professors at university hospitals are in charge of all the processes of treatment. Until now, specialized hospitals have been undervalued due to the blind prejudice of patients who prefer university hospitals. However, many specialized hospitals outperform university hospitals in research and medicine to publish SCI-level papers. In addition, almost all of the medical staff are made up of professional-level specialists with extensive clinical experience.
Specialized hospitals are medical institutions certified by the government (Ministry of Health and Welfare), and 109 are currently designated. Specialized hospitals can be found on the website of the Korea Specialized Hospital Association.
Recently, Mr. Lee (46) has been treated at a spinal hospital and is satisfied. Lee, who was in urgent need of treatment due to severe back, tangling pain and frequent numbness, was waiting for the date of surgery at a university hospital because he had not improved even after receiving injections and procedures more than six times.
When the surgery was suddenly postponed, Lee visited Cheongdam Woori Hospital (Chairman Lee Sang-ho) and was able to quickly complete the operation and recover.
Cheongdam Woori Hospital has been selected as a specialized hospital in the spine field since the designation system of specialized hospitals by the Ministry of Health and Welfare began in 2011, and it is a leading representative of spinal medicine in Korea.
Our hospital is evaluated as providing treatment ahead of university hospitals with a 24-hour resident system and a collaborative system for high-level surgery, with all medical staff specializing in spinal fields such as neurosurgery, general surgery, thoracic surgery, anesthesia and pain medicine, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and internal medicine. The latest medical technique, the minimally invasive minimally incised anhydrous blood method, has been developed and developed by our hospitals for more than 40 years, and all medical staff are responsible for everything from diagnosis to high-level surgery without medical gaps.
The 100% 24-hour resident system for specialists is possible because there is a system for spinal specialists in our hospitals. This is due to the full-time process in which specialists who have already completed their training and residency at medical schools work as training doctors again to learn the latest special high-level treatment techniques that are difficult to learn at university hospitals or general hospitals. Professors of medical schools and general hospitals in Korea and abroad are also participating in short-term MISS (international minimally invasive spinal surgery) courses and long-term foreign fellowship courses to train the latest techniques that are difficult to systematically learn in their own country.
In addition, the secret of our hospitals to quickly treat severe and emergency patients is thanks to the Team Surgery mutual cooperation system with experience and expertise. This is a key role for spinal specialists from various departments to form a team and participate from the surgical planning stage at the same time to provide the best treatment with safe, no aftereffects and high success rates.
Shin Sang-ha, head of Cheongdam Woori Hospital, emphasized, “We will do our best as a spine hospital that provides the most specialized treatment by strengthening the cooperative system of all medical staff and enhancing internal response capabilities.”
[Lee Byungmoon, medical reporter]
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