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The Supreme Court has ruled that there is no problem with oriental doctors using ultrasound devices.

The Supreme Court explained that it was to guarantee the people's right to choose, but the Korean Medical Association put out a regrettable position.



Reporter Park Chan-geun will tell you more details.



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An oriental doctor who was handed over to trial for using an abdominal ultrasound diagnostic device during treatment.



He was sentenced to a fine of 800,000 won until the second trial for violating the medical law.



However, the Supreme Court finally concluded that he was innocent after six years.



The Supreme Court suggested that we should consider whether there are legal regulations prohibiting oriental doctors from using the device, and whether oriental doctors may harm patients in terms of health or hygiene if they use the device as a diagnostic aid.



However, in this case, it was judged that there was no regulation prohibiting the use of oriental medicine doctors, and it could not be concluded that there was a risk of harm to patients as a treatment aid.



He added that he would not use existing standards that were more difficult, such as whether the manufacturing principle of the device was based on oriental medicine principles.



[Kim Myeong-soo/President of the Supreme Court: Allowing oriental doctors to use ultrasound diagnostic devices is also to guarantee the people's right to choose within a reasonable range for medical services.]



The responses of the Korean Medical Association and the Korean Medical Association were greatly mixed.



[Han Hong-gu / Vice President of the Korean Medical Association: I think today's ruling is a very correct judgment in accordance with the changing times



. I think.

This ruling is a bit regrettable.]



However, the Supreme Court said that this ruling does not mean that oriental medicine doctors can use all modern medical devices, but that it is limited to cases where diagnostic medical devices for which there is no law prohibiting the use are used as auxiliary means. explained.



(Video coverage: Seol Min-hwan, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu, CG: Jegal-chan)