Columns

Signed analysis and opinion. Clearly separated from reporting, and marked as opinion in structured data.

Urology

Columns by practising urologists on the conditions they treat, the operations they perform, and the decisions patients are asked to make.

Kidney Stones

The stone is out. So why am I being asked to come back?

A urologist on what the visit after stone surgery is actually for — the stent and its date, the fragments left behind on purpose, and a kidney that has to be seen to have gone down.

Joon Chae Na9 Sept 20266 min read

Prostate

He cannot stop his blood thinners. That is not a reason to rule out prostate surgery

The operation that removes the most tissue is the one recommended when the bleeding risk is highest. A urologist on why that is not a contradiction, and on what the guidelines actually name.

Chang Ki Lee8 Sept 20266 min read

General Surgery

All general surgery columns

Columns by practising general surgeons on operative practice in South Korea and how the decision to operate is reached.

Gallbladder

Not every gallbladder is the same operation

A surgeon on what repeated inflammation does to the anatomy, why the number of incisions is the wrong thing to compare, and why the decision that matters is the one made mid-operation.

Jong Je Sung9 Sept 20267 min read

Gallbladder

My brother had his stone broken up. Why do I have to lose my gallbladder?

A surgeon on why a stone in the urinary tract and a stone in the gallbladder are not treated as the same problem, and on the three things worth establishing before a date is set.

Jongmin Kim8 Sept 20266 min read

4 columns across 2 specialties · signed opinion, marked as such in structured data · a machine-readable index of everything published is at /llms.txt