〈Name〉, 〈This is Roh Moo-hyun〉, 〈Words Carried by the Wind〉…
A unique writer and director in the Korean documentary field
The story of the best 'name'

"Questioning the Reason for the Existence of Real Doctors"

Stories from Korea's best medical staff
It is a medical guide containing disease information.
Medical records that patients and their families must know

It's hard enough when someone you love is sick to the point of death, but there's nothing more difficult and lonely than not knowing anyone at the hospital and not having anyone to consult about treatment options.
So, in writing this book, I put ‘patients and their families’ as my top priority.
I hope this helps even a little.
- In the text

I highly recommend this book to patients and their families who are struggling with a serious illness and are at a crossroads in deciding what treatment to receive.
I also recommend this book to medical professionals and young medical students who dream of becoming doctors.
Lee Jin-soo (former director of the National Cancer Center)

As the author of "Myung-ui," the question I've been asked most often is, "Who is Myung-ui?"
He asks me directly whether this person can cure my illness.
But if no famous doctor in the world can cure my illness, he cannot be considered a doctor.
It's not like you won't lose patients just because you're famous.
So, what I realized while producing over 800 episodes of “The Name” is not “Who is the name?”
The question is, 'What kind of person is a real doctor?'
I learned the criteria for what a true doctor should have.
That person understands my pain.
A doctor who knows my pain and offers to save me from it, who offers to heal me by borrowing the hand of God, is a good doctor.

--- p.14 From the "Preface"

As of 2023, colon cancer is the second most common cancer among Koreans.
In 2007, when Professor Kim Nam-gyu first appeared on “Myung-ui,” the five-year survival rate for colon cancer was 54% for stage 3 and 11.9% for stage 4.
However, according to the National Cancer Registry Statistics published in 2023, the survival rate for colon cancer is 82.1% for stage 3 and 20.6% for stage 4.
Anyone with cancer knows.
What does this change in numbers mean?
This is the number of hope created by a true doctor who never gave up on any patient and existed only for the patient, a doctor who devoted his entire life to being a doctor.

--- p.25 From “People Who Exist for Patients”

Someone asked me.
Do you believe in miracles?
I believe in miracles.
No, I saw a miracle.
The miracle was nothing else.
To always stay awake and silently study to continue someone's life, to pray earnestly for the one you love—that was a miracle.
So, can't we all be someone's miracle?
Watching the cerebrovascular surgery, I wanted to believe in miracles more than ever.
If I could, I would want to be someone's miracle too.

--- p.44 From “When Encountering Unexpected Misfortune”

Unfortunately, not everyone is eligible for transplantation.
As of 2023, there are approximately 6,300 patients in need of liver transplantation, of which approximately 1,500 are eligible for transplantation.
What these statistics tell us is that only about 25% of patients receive a transplant, or in other words, the remaining 75% are unfortunately not saved.

--- p.57 From "I hope you live long"

“When patients with chronic kidney disease reach the terminal stage, they think that their lives have also reached the terminal stage.” He said that this is the most difficult thing when treating patients as a doctor.
When patients start dialysis, they feel despair as if all the knowledge, financial resources, and education they have accumulated throughout their lives have all been lost.
right.
'Terminal' only describes the state of the disease, and does not mean that our life is over.

--- p.72 From “Stone throwing is not the end, but the beginning”

I wondered if seeing sick babies every day might be more difficult than seeing adult patients, so I asked, “When are you the happiest as a pediatrician?”
“The best part is when children who have had surgery stop coming for regular checkups.
Get healthy.
“I hope my children grow up healthy and well, even if they forget me.”
--- p.92 From “Remembering the Patients Who Couldn’t Come”

What Professor Woo Young-seop also emphasizes is early detection and drug treatment of depression.
This is because depression is not a disease that suddenly occurs one day due to a single stressful event.
It is a disease that occurs when stress builds up over a long period of time and the brain eventually cannot withstand the stress.
It takes a long time for the brain to recover.
The treatment to reduce stress on the brain during that time is drug therapy.
So, while continuing drug treatment, if the surrounding environment or relationships improve, the depressive symptoms will improve, and when the condition continues stably, the drug treatment will be stopped and ended.

--- p.103 From “A Doctor Who Treats the Heart with All His Heart”

The 'cure-all' recommended by Professor Min Byeong-hyeon is actually not surgery, but exercise.
So he was once a 'bicycle evangelist'.
He used to spread the gospel whenever he had the chance, saying that there was no better exercise than cycling to strengthen the quadriceps without putting a strain on the knee cartilage.
When I worked at a university hospital, I used to commute by bicycle, and a few years ago, I even cycled along the east coast, enjoying cycling for the health of my knees.
Of course, I still give a thumbs up to bicycles.

--- p.124 From “Raising Sore Knees”

The profession of orthopedic surgeon, which helped him stand again, seemed truly great.
I remembered the back of Professor Kim Jin-hyeok, who had been performing surgery while standing for over five hours, bending and stretching his legs alternately.
Even though I am not the patient's mother, I wanted to bow and say thank you again and again.
And he prayed and prayed that the life of the patient he helped stand again would shine brightly for a long time.

--- p.151 From “5-hour surgery to straighten your spine”

The doctor a patient needs is not an authoritarian doctor.
He is an authoritative doctor.
Sometimes, when my acquaintances ask me to recommend a doctor for cervical or spinal problems, I recommend him.
And he always adds this:
“If Professor Kim Geun-soo wants to perform the surgery, then do it!” This is because a doctor’s authority lies in his/her skills and personality.

--- p.181 From “The doctor we want to meet is… … ”

“We are talking.
We are receiving treatment to live meaningfully, not to cure cancer.
“Don’t live like that, obsessed with cancer treatment and unable to travel with your family, attend your child’s graduation, or meet your friends.” When asked what he really wants to say to his patients, Dr. Jin-soo Lee answered like this.
right.
You shouldn't live like that.
Sometimes we live missing the essence.
I can't even tell whether I'm treating to live or living to be treated.

--- p.195 From “We don’t live to fight cancer”