A Study on the 
Inclination for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Those Who have Visited the Hospital

Keimyung Medical Journal 1982;1(1):89-97.

A Study on the Inclination for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Those Who have Visited the Hospital

병원내방자의 진료선택에 관한 연구

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Abstract

The writer has investigated their inclination for medical diagnosis and treatment through 1;481 persons in total from March 8; 1982 to June 10; 1982. : 567 Out-patient and their relatives the investigation has had direct interview with; 487 Kyung San Buk Do personnel who received physical examination; 417 Daegu Bank employees. 1. Last year; the percentage in the choice of medical institution was 48.9% of all the investigated in physician's clinic; only 2.5% in herb clinic. This figure showed that their preferance for physician's clinic was much greater than herb clinic. The reason they chosen the Physicians was that they found "the treatment is sufficient" in 36.8 %; "lab tests are sufficient" in 21.5%; "the medical facilities are good" in 11.2% of them. Of all the patients who have visited either the Physicians or herb physicians; the Internal Medicine Department was the department that they utilized most frequently; the percentage was ■ as follows: 35.5% in physicians; 61.0% in herb physicians; 48.7% in both physicians and herb physicians. The number of the patient who have visited the herb physicians was much higher than that of the physicians. 2. They have administerated herb medicine (a restorative) 51.0%; medicine (kinds of vilamine) in 37.9% of all the investigated as health promotion. The percentage of herb medicine was much higher than that of medicine. 3. In the case of "dislocated bone;" all the investigated prefered the acupuncture to herb medi-?cine as treatment method regardless of educational level. The percentage was as follows: 35.7% in illiteracy; 22.7% in primary school graduate; 21.4% in middle school graduate; 45.7% in high school gradute and 39.8% in college graduate. 4. The differancc in the percentage between the attitude of physicians and herb physicians toward the patients was 9.4% to the effect that herb physicians used more "difficult expressions" than physicians and 7.9% the effect that physicians was more "complex" than herb physicians in the medical diagnosis and treatment. This figure showed that these two examples were greater in the differancc of percentage than any other reason.