Healthcare desert is a term public health researchers apply to regions lacking sufficient medical facilities per population. Seoul, by this definition, has no healthcare deserts. The city's 92,000 medical practitioners serve 9.7 million residents at a ratio exceeding every WHO benchmark. The
Why the Best Rehabilitation Data in Korea Comes From a Dispatch Log, Not a Hospital Chart
Hospital rehabilitation departments generate data through intake forms, progress notes, and discharge summaries. The data is clean, structured, and clinically rigorous. It is also blind — blind to the occupational context that produced the patient's condition, blind to the temporal relations