For the patients, I want to always you know tell them you have to be brave
somehow. Medicine is changing I want patients to become more well
informed than they are now
As you already have to treat your patients here in Korea what is your
motivation then for going abroad to other countries. A certain point, if you
become a surgeon, and you do a lot of surgeries you can't learn anything from
others anymore or just doing your surgery will not improve your surgical
skills that much. How to improve it? I believe you should train others so
that you can objectively see how your surgery
what your surgery is some of the surgical steps you have to
categorize and you have to logically see your surgery so that you
can explain it to the other surgeon. In that process you can objectively
appreciate your surgery and can improve your surgery afterwards. So you're always
learning always improving always teaching others. Because nobody is
perfect I'm not perfect yet and I won't be able to do it so it's a lifelong
process. And we understand you want to spread awareness for this surgery
what's the reason why? I believe surgeons and the medical
industry should give more attention and our attention to the
quality of life treatments. Penile implants and surgery for erectile
dysfunction is not a critical illness treatment; I mean you don't need it to
live. It's not a life or death disease but
still it impacts a man's life tremendously. I think it is fair to say if the patient
knows that treatment but still doesn't want that treatment - it is a fair
situation. But many patients are not able to get this surgery because
they don't know it. I don't think that's a fair situation
Then do you have a parting message for future penile implanters or potential penile
implant patients. For the patients I want to always you know tell them you have to
be brave somehow because admitting that having a condition like this as a man is
a very embarrassing thing but once you talk it out
with a proper surgeon or doctor who can help you you will get a much better
response from them. It's your choice it's not life or death but if you feel like
that you are suffering from it you don't have to waste your life like that. We are
striving to live a happier life isn't it. And do patient's usually know what they
want when they come to you? Actually not many people know what they want in
the first place so giving them enough information so that they can decide
whether they want this treatment or not in ahead of coming to the practice
As we know there are many tools & platforms these days like YouTube or
Google or many things you can utilize, patients can utilize, they have a
much better access to the medical information than before. Like this
filming as well. I want to provide them information so that they can educate
themselves and find a better treatment for them. Medicine is changing
I want patients to become more well-informed than they are now
How about the surgeons? Many surgeons fail them because they try to treat the erectile
dysfunction patient just like the prostate cancer patients. They are
different that's the first thing they should understand if they
want it they will have a much happier life because many patients with the
penile implant will reward you after six months of the surgery. Surgeons become
happy people due to their patients happiness I just want to tell them that
if you are willing to come to the path you will have that in your future
How do you see the surgery in the future? We all look different right and we all
have a different body, anatomy and characteristics but current medicine is
not able to meet the differences of each and every person but I guess
in the future we will be able to you know meet the differences of
each characteristic so that we can serve our patients better