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When Every Hospital Gives a Different Diagnosis, What Should You Believe?

Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin
의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

When you receive different diagnoses at several hospitals, it's confusing to know what to believe.

Each clinical department usually looks at the body through the window of its own field. So when diagnoses differ, it doesn't necessarily mean one of them is wrong — it may simply be that they are looking from a different angle.

In these situations, I lay out all of your previous test results side by side in chronological order, and I look at whether the different diagnoses might actually be describing different cross-sections of the same underlying flow. Rather than choosing one of them, drawing a picture that connects the whole comes first.

If it has left you confused, bring the records you have. We'll start by organizing them together.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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