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Doctor’s association withdraws operation boycott plan
A doctors’ group said Friday that it would drop a plan to strike, scheduled to begin from Sunday, in protest against the government’s new medical service pricing plan.
Roh Hwan-kyu, head of the Korean Medical Assoc...
Number of clinics tops 55,541 in first quarter
The number of clinics in Korea was 55,541 in the first quarter of this year, up 226 compared with the same period from a year earlier, and that of pharmacies rose 21 to 21,110, a state-run agency report said Wednesday...
Doctors under fire over DRG system
The medical circle is under fire after the Korean Medical Association refuted the government’s argument Monday, saying that enforcing a new payment system based on diagnosis-related groups, or DRG, will deteriorate th...
Doctors to comply with public opinion on new fee plan
The Korean Medical Association (KMA) said Monday it will decide whether to halt operations for a week by conducting a public opinion poll over the diagnosis related group (DRG) payment system set to be implemented on ...
Doctors clash over prescription right of natural products
Medical doctors and Oriental medicine practitioners are clashing over the prescription of locally developed natural drugs, such as Dong-A’s Stillen, SK Chemicals’ Joins and Green Cross’s Shinbaro.
The Korean Medica...
85.2% of Korean ED patients exposed to benign prostatic hyperplasia
85.2 percent of Korean patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) experienced benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), according to a local professor who cited a journal of the Korean Urological Association.
In a local bri...
Doctors protest DRG plan
Doctors Saturday called on the government to scrap its plan to scrap the so-called diagnosis related group (DRG) payment system under which patients will pay for hospital services in a bundle, otherwise known as the f...
Ophthalmologists to stop cataract operations for one week
Ophthalmologists decided on June 9 to refuse to perform cataract operations for a week next month to protest a government plan to lower doctor fees under the so-called diagnosis related group (DRG) payment system unde...
Controversy of OTC emergency contraceptives
The Korean Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists showed displeasure on the conversion of morning-after pills into over-the-counter medicine.
In a statement on Thursday, they protested against the Korea Foo...
Doctors urged to be harmonious with government-mandated DRG system
Fees for seven different medical treatments including cataract surgeries and caesarean sections will go down by an average of 21 percent from July.
However, the change is fiercely opposed by the Korean Medical Asso...
