A survey was conducted to investigate the attitudes of the oriental medicine doctors to the name of a disease in western medicine. This survey was distributed to 500 oriental medicine doctors and received 214 from December 20th 1999 to January 10th 20...
A survey was conducted to investigate the attitudes of the oriental medicine doctors to the name of a disease in western medicine. This survey was distributed to 500 oriental medicine doctors and received 214 from December 20th 1999 to January 10th 2000, a response rate of 42.8%, 76.1%, 59.7%, 34.0%, 50.2%, and 50.5% of the respondents answered "yes" for IDS, Intoxication, Injury, Cancer of the larynx, Uterine cancer, respectively. Most of the respondents point out necessity of including these names in Korea Classification of Diseases (Oriental Medicine), On the other hand they suggested further discussions about the diagnosis of the nature of a disease on the view of Oriental Medicine. The results was analyzed by wether he has experience in lesidence or not. The respondents who have experience in lesidence were more positive than who have not toward the name of a disease in western. In conclusion, it is urgently required to record substantially through further clinical study about oriental medicine diagnosis and treatment follow the name of a disease in western.