Dr. Kim Seo-hyung, advisor for tvN's "Naked World History"
The easiest introduction to medical history for teenagers

Easy to read, deep to understand! Professor Kim Seo-hyung, who has shared her knowledge of medical history through various broadcasts and books, including as an advisor on tvN's "Naked World History," KBS's "Curious Sunday Jang Yeong-sil Show" and "Issue Pick, With the Teacher," and MBC Radio's "Tap-Tap-Tap History Journey," has returned with an introductory book on medical history for young people.


"Medical Interview, I Want to Know Him" ​​contains virtual interviews conducted by medical YouTuber 'Meddy' with seven legendary Eastern and Western medical experts.
Beginning with Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine, Galen, who was the center of Western medicine for over 1,000 years, Nostradamus, who was both a prophet and a physician, Heo Jun, who overcame his illegitimate status to become a royal physician, John Snow, who laid the foundation for epidemiology by marking dots on maps, Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, and Esther Park, who changed the lives of Joseon women, all great doctors who transcended time and space were mobilized.


Through the format of a "virtual interview," readers can easily and enjoyably acquire knowledge of medical history, breaking free from the rigid and heavy framework of existing medical books.

A good doctor is not just a technician who cures diseases.
You must be someone who understands the patient's life, emotions, and habits, and who knows how to reflect on your own limitations and ignorance.
This is because illness is not just a physical problem, but a phenomenon connected to all elements that make up a human being.

--- p.17

The heart is just a pump that circulates blood.
So it's thumping.
Although we can reflect emotions, it is the brain that generates them.
The heart's response is simply the result of the nervous system transmitting signals to the brain.
The real center is in the brain.

--- p.43

Medicine is still a field of inquiry that requires constant renewal.
Do not blindly trust the authority of the past, humbly question new phenomena, and think with human beings at the center.
That's what matters most.
I believe that a true doctor is someone who is always willing to learn and explore on his own.
And that exploration and learning begins the moment you close the book.

--- p.52

I was a person who loved philosophy even before I became a doctor.
And even after becoming a doctor, philosophy never left my side.
To me, medicine and philosophy are not two separate fields, but rather a single mirror reflecting each other.
The two disciplines ultimately have no choice but to meet when faced with the fundamental question, “What is a human being?”

--- p.53

I have always believed that a person's worth lies not in where he or she is born, but in the life he or she lives.
Even when I was writing Donguibogam, such thoughts were deeply rooted in me.
Knowledge was not for the privileged, and questioning someone's status in front of a sick person was considered the worst kind of behavior.

--- p.99

We needed a tool that would show us at a glance when and where people were getting sick.
So we started marking the addresses of sick patients on a map.
This visualization was not simply a location marker, but a scientific tool that revealed patterns.

--- p.117

Some missionaries were amazed at my surgical skills, calling them “unprecedented techniques.”
But I didn't have any special skills.
There was just a desperate desire to give life back to women who were dying in pain.

--- p.157~158