Professor Park Chang-beom of Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital publishes 'Smart patients have different hospital choices'

Oct 22, 2024

Professor Park Chang-beom of Cardiovascular Medicine at Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital (Director Lee Woo-in) published 'Smart Patients Have Different Hospital Choices'. The book includes friendly explanations and examples of how to properly select a hospital and receive necessary medical treatment and how to cope with various situations that may occur during treatment.

This book is a book that adds medical experience and medical information obtained by Professor Park Chang-beom as a specialist in a university hospital, and contains what patients need. It kindly explains the characteristics of various hospitals such as senior general hospitals, general hospitals, university hospitals, specialized hospitals, and clinics. Various documents issued by hospitals, such as prescriptions and medical certificates, medical expenses receipts, and medical requests filled with difficult medical terms, are also explained in an easy-to-understand manner along with examples.

Patients experience various inconveniences and difficulties in the process of being treated at the hospital. Patients' worries and difficulties in the clinic include 'three-hour waiting, short medical treatment hours, more expensive medical expenses than expected, and complex medical systems. If communication with doctors is not smooth, patients and their caregivers must face confusion. In the book, these difficulties are examined in detail and meticulously taken care of, and solutions suitable for various situations, including medical litigation, are presented.



Professor Park Chang-beom said, "I wanted to help patients choose and decide on medical treatment after fully understanding their disease and treatment process while being respected within the medical system"I hope this book will be of little help to the numerous decisions patients experience in the selection and treatment of medical institutions."

Professor Park Chang-beom of Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital publishes 'Smart patients have different hospital choices'
"Smart patients have different hospital choices" Professor Park Chang-beom of Cardiovascular Medicine at Gangdong Kyunghee University Hospital.




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