Dig Your Own Area
The department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery of Pyongyang Municipal People’s Hospital No. 1 is one of Korea’s leading medical groups as the centre of the relevant research society of the Ministry of Public Health.
The head of both the department and the society is O Ju Hyon who was appointed to the post seven years ago after working as a teacher at the Pyongyang Medical College of Kim Il Sung University.
During his over ten-year-long career as a teacher he had already acquired relevant cyclopedic knowledge and rich clinical experience. And his mother was the experienced head of the similar department of a central hospital. This enabled him to take the shortcut to the attainments of his.
On the basis of his knowledge and experience O is steadily venturing into the unknown world in his field. During his treatment of patients he noticed that among patients with both sinusitis and bronchitis there were those who continued to show signs of bronchitis and would relapse into the disease even after their sinusitis had been treated. The diseases referred to as sinobronchitis syndrome were recognized as a new disease syndrome at the end of last century.
The pathogenesis of the syndrome had not been clearly explained across the world, and there was no correct method of diagnosing the syndrome. Besides, no rational method of treating it was published.
According to the relevant specialists, the syndrome was a complication—lasting sinusitis gave rise to bronchitis and vice versa—and it had become the recognized fact that bronchitis did not occur if sinusitis was treated in time. They also said that peculiar medicines were effective in treating the complication.
O, however, noticed that there was an obvious difference between clinical practice and the specialists’ opinions, and volunteered to solve the problem. During his career as a teacher he had already been engrossed in the relevant research, wondering about the problem.
O says, “Whenever such a difficult problem arose in treating patients I could hardly be indifferent to their pains. And I keenly felt I should be responsible for pioneering a part of the medical field.”
He made a model of the syndrome, and on the basis of the model, intensified the basic and clinical research to know its pathogenesis and find the way to improve its diagnosis and treatment. In the course of this, he discovered that the pathogenesis is not a complication, but a simultaneous attack of the diseases. And he found out an effective method of the treatment, that is, he confirmed that the syndrome requires not a local treatment based on a particular medicine, but a compound method of treating the affected area and the rest of the body at the same time. He also invented a necessary diagnostic device, and the result of the research was verified in clinical practice.
Timely application of the compound treatment resulted in no cases in which the diseases became chronic or returned. He then newly defined the syndrome as an acquired syndrome that causes inflammatory changes in paranasal sinus, bronchus and lung simultaneously. For his scientific explanation of the concept and incidence of the syndrome and the selection of the rational method of its treatment, O received a doctorate in April 2015. And in April 2016 he obtained a DPRK certificate of invention for inventing a thermal ear-nose-throat-treating device. He also has several certificates of contrivance.
O’s enterprising and enthusiastic way of work has helped other members of the department prepare themselves to be able surgeons. Recently the number of those with academic degrees or titles in the department has rapidly increased, and the department has received three state patents in two months.
Their achievements were often highly estimated at national health sector’s scientific and technological achievements exhibitions and national medical appliances exhibitions.
The department head says, “No mistake is tolerable in treating patients. We can fulfil our duty as engineers of human life only when we dig our own area.”
The head of both the department and the society is O Ju Hyon who was appointed to the post seven years ago after working as a teacher at the Pyongyang Medical College of Kim Il Sung University.
During his over ten-year-long career as a teacher he had already acquired relevant cyclopedic knowledge and rich clinical experience. And his mother was the experienced head of the similar department of a central hospital. This enabled him to take the shortcut to the attainments of his.
On the basis of his knowledge and experience O is steadily venturing into the unknown world in his field. During his treatment of patients he noticed that among patients with both sinusitis and bronchitis there were those who continued to show signs of bronchitis and would relapse into the disease even after their sinusitis had been treated. The diseases referred to as sinobronchitis syndrome were recognized as a new disease syndrome at the end of last century.
The pathogenesis of the syndrome had not been clearly explained across the world, and there was no correct method of diagnosing the syndrome. Besides, no rational method of treating it was published.
According to the relevant specialists, the syndrome was a complication—lasting sinusitis gave rise to bronchitis and vice versa—and it had become the recognized fact that bronchitis did not occur if sinusitis was treated in time. They also said that peculiar medicines were effective in treating the complication.
O, however, noticed that there was an obvious difference between clinical practice and the specialists’ opinions, and volunteered to solve the problem. During his career as a teacher he had already been engrossed in the relevant research, wondering about the problem.
O says, “Whenever such a difficult problem arose in treating patients I could hardly be indifferent to their pains. And I keenly felt I should be responsible for pioneering a part of the medical field.”
He made a model of the syndrome, and on the basis of the model, intensified the basic and clinical research to know its pathogenesis and find the way to improve its diagnosis and treatment. In the course of this, he discovered that the pathogenesis is not a complication, but a simultaneous attack of the diseases. And he found out an effective method of the treatment, that is, he confirmed that the syndrome requires not a local treatment based on a particular medicine, but a compound method of treating the affected area and the rest of the body at the same time. He also invented a necessary diagnostic device, and the result of the research was verified in clinical practice.
Timely application of the compound treatment resulted in no cases in which the diseases became chronic or returned. He then newly defined the syndrome as an acquired syndrome that causes inflammatory changes in paranasal sinus, bronchus and lung simultaneously. For his scientific explanation of the concept and incidence of the syndrome and the selection of the rational method of its treatment, O received a doctorate in April 2015. And in April 2016 he obtained a DPRK certificate of invention for inventing a thermal ear-nose-throat-treating device. He also has several certificates of contrivance.
O’s enterprising and enthusiastic way of work has helped other members of the department prepare themselves to be able surgeons. Recently the number of those with academic degrees or titles in the department has rapidly increased, and the department has received three state patents in two months.
Their achievements were often highly estimated at national health sector’s scientific and technological achievements exhibitions and national medical appliances exhibitions.
The department head says, “No mistake is tolerable in treating patients. We can fulfil our duty as engineers of human life only when we dig our own area.”
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