1.Informed Consent and Medical Confidentiality.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2001;44(10):1052-1057
The first half of this article deals with the concept of informed consent. There are three important elements in practice. First, the consent must be specific as to the proposed intervention. Second, sufficient information must be provided so that a patient can fully understand the matter. For the criterion of sufficiency, this article proposes what might be called as 'the hypothetical self-test' with which physicians can self-evaluate the sufficiency of the information that they provide to the patient. Third, the consent must be given in a fashion to meet the patients' intellectual capabilities. In case the patient is not intellectual enough incapable, the consent, which is still required, can be obtained from a substitute decision maker. This article also suggests patients to prepare advanced directives when they are still competent, so as to avoid having their family members be left with moral quandaries of making the life with moral quandaries of making the life-and-death decision. The second half of this article deals with medical confidentiality. Why should a physician keep the medical record confidential? First, if the physician fails to keep medical confidentiality, hardly can trust be built between physicians and patients. Second, once the trust breaks down, physicians would face difficulties in taking the patients' medical histories, which are crucial to the diagnosis of the patient, because the patients obviously are reluctant to give information in that setting. Third, each individual should have control over information about him/herself. This article concludes with cataloging seven circumstances in which medical confidentiality is excused. (237 words).
Cataloging
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Confidentiality*
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Diagnosis
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Humans
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Informed Consent*
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Medical Records
2.Influenze Virus.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 1998;41(3):281-289
No abstract available.
3.HIV Infection in Children.
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1995;38(8):1023-1035
No abstract available.
Child*
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HIV Infections*
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HIV*
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Humans
4.Professional Ethics.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 2001;44(1):6-10
No abstract available.
Ethics, Professional*
5.Vaccine Adverse Reaction and National Vaccine Injury Compensation.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 1997;40(12):1635-1647
No abstract available.
Compensation and Redress*
6.Viral Encephalitis in Childhood : Etiologic Agents and Characteristics.
Journal of the Korean Medical Association 1997;40(7):805-813
No abstract available.
Encephalitis, Viral*
8.Detection of cytomegalovirus DNA in urine culture using polymerase chain reaction.
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1993;36(5):626-633
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplication was used to detect cytomegalovirus (CMV) in tissue culture from the urine of newborns and patients who was suspected CMV infection, Synthetic oligonucleotide primer pairs were used to amplify DNA from the major immediate-early and the phosphoprotein 150 genes of CMV AD 169. Amplified products were detected by gel electrophoresis and by dot-blot hybridization with oligonucleotide probes. We found 12 different tissus culture isolates of CMV after the microimmunoassay using monoclonal antibody to immediate-early antigen. All 12 isolates were positive after PCR amplification. But there was no positive reaction when the same primers and probes were used to amplify herpes simplex virus and human genomic DNA. Twelve urine samples were positive when tested with one or both primer pairs and probes. When compaired tissue culture, detection gel electrophoresis provide a sensitivity of 91% (11/12), dot-blot analysis raised the sensitivity to 100% (12/12). A specificity of both primer was 100%(0/12). We conclude that PCR amplification may be a valuable tool for diagnosing congenital CMV infection.
Cytomegalovirus*
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DNA*
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Electrophoresis
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Oligonucleotide Probes
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Polymerase Chain Reaction*
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Sensitivity and Specificity
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Simplexvirus
9.One Case of Incomplete Double Urethra.
Yeungnam University Journal of Medicine 1988;5(2):235-238
Duplication of the urethra within a single penile shaft is a rare anomaly. These can be divided into those that are in the sagittal plane, which is most common, and those that occur side by side. In some cases, the accessory channel is complete, having a separate bladder opening and no communication with the more normal ventral urethra. In other cases, the accessory urethra is incomplete, either ending blindly or communicating with the urethra distal to the bladder neck. We report on a 20-year-old male with incomplete double urethra.
Humans
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Male
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Neck
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Urethra*
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Urinary Bladder
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Young Adult
10.Primary osteosarcoma of the breast.
Chang Young KWON ; Nan Mo MOON
Journal of the Korean Cancer Association 1992;24(2):333-337
No abstract available.
Breast*
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Osteosarcoma*