medical differences

This picture represents demonstration to reject changing public management to private management of Korea medical system.




This picture shows the fact that Korea tend to eat a lot of medicinces.





This picture indicates the problem of medical insurance in America.





This picture (johns hopkins hospital) expresses that America has established main medical system in the world.


I chose the second one (hospital “ER”) of the movies. The brief story of the episode is that someone who got accident cannot be recovered and doctors regard his life as end in terms of medical aspect. In this situation, doctors asked his mother for donation of his body to others. Even though his mother insisted possibility to stand up again because he squeezed her hand, finally, she accepted and made a decision to donate his body to other people.


First of all, I think Korea medical system is almost the same as medical system of America, such as medical devices, references and so on. Since America has established main medical system so far, almost all countries follow America medical science. However, if I look at inside of Korea medical environment, there are some different things between Korea and America.


Actually, I do not know well about organ donation but I can say that I know about circumstance of Korea hospital because my left leg was broken when I was in military service. At first, I do not know America hospital atmosphere and system, however if the environment of this movie is true, Korea’s thing is totally different from America’s thing. In Korea, it is hard to expect that main doctor tries to contact with patients deeply. They usually have a lot of patients per one main doctor compared to America, so they do not have the time to consider specific people. Normally, patients can have only official and really essential treatment. Another big different thing is insurance and cost. I heard about insurance system of America from my roommate. He said that America medical system was changed to private management and then insurance price has been increasing rapidly and price of surgery and another treatment is unimaginably expensive. For example, if someone calls the ambulance because of injury, he or she should pay around 3,000 dollars just for ambulance. When I heard this one, I was so surprised because injury is not people’s intention. Who can know when we will be hurt? In addition, when I went to health center about 5 month ago in order to cure my cold, I could not help having suspicion on my eyes. I got about 400 dollars just for a prescription and medicine. In Korea, it is sufficient to pay only 6~7 dollars if I have medical insurance. Even if I do not have, the price will be only 20~30 dollars. Of course, there are several reasons why this America medical system became like this. However, if I look at a big picture, these two things are big different from Korea.


Additionally, In Korea, people tend to visit a doctor so much. If they feel little bit strange, almost 50% people go to a doctor or take a medicine. I think the big reason is relatively cheap medical price in terms of normal prices.


The only one thing that I hope in Korea is that people are willing to donate their body after death. Fortunately, nowadays, people’s thinking has been changing but it is not sufficient to cover demand. I hope someday Korea medical system and American too will be much better than today.