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To provide comprehensive services for our patients with neurological and neurosurgical diseases, the staff of the Neuroscience Center is made up of specialized care teams that cater to patients with dementia and Parkinson’s, epilepsy, sleep disorders, neuromuscular diseases, and headache. Our specialized care "Dream Team" consists of respected professors from the departments of neurology, neurosurgery, professional nurses, and coordinators that are responsible for providing the best patient care services for our outpatients.

Clinics

Samsung Medical Center’s Neuroscience Center is running six specialized clinics:

  • The Dementia-Parkinsonism Clinic provides medical services for, Dementia and Parkinson’s two intractable diseases that are attracting a great deal of attention as our society ages.
  • The DBS Surgery Clinic performs deep brain stimulation surgery for advanced Parkinson’s patients. We are also expanding our treatment to areas other than Parkinson’s, such as intractable dystonia, hand tremors and epilepsy.
  • The Epilepsy Clinic treats more epilepsy patients than any other clinic in Korea, offering precise diagnostic or presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy including epilepsy monitoring unit, and patient-oriented optimal therapies, as well as surgical treatments with high success rates for patients with medically refractory seizures.
  • The Facial Spasm Clinic uses a combination of medication (Botox clinic) and surgical intervention (microvascular decompression) for patients with hemifacial spasm.
  • The CMT Clinic provides patient-customized diagnosis and treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. The clinic also performs research on causal genes and the pathogenesis of CMT, using the results to develop new drugs, nerve regeneration therapy (mesenchymal stem cells), gene therapy, regeneration treatment using muscle tissue-engineering, and gene blocking.
  • The Neuroimmunologic Disease Clinic analyzes and develops antibodies for autoimmune diseases such as myasthenia gravis, myelitis, multiple sclerosis, and peripheral neuropathy.


Outside those six specialized clinics, we also provide treatment for neuromuscular diseases, sleeping disorders, headaches, vertigo, and intraoperative neuromonitoring.
Through this hard work we strive to give hope to our patients with rare and intractable diseases, as well as to pioneer new fields of therapy through research on stem cells.

Other resources

To overcome intractable neurologic disorders the Neuroscience Center is optimizing its clinical and research environment, cooperating with distinguished international universities and institutes, and implementing complicated therapies, such as stem cell, deep brain stimulation, and gene therapy.

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Patients' Rights and Responsibilities

Patients' Rights

1. Right to receive medical care

Patients have the right to receive proper care in a safe setting without discrimination nor should their right to care be violated regardless of their gender, age, religion, social status, nationality, language, race, or physical/mental/financial status. Medical teams shall not refuse to provide care without justifiable reason.

2. Right to be informed and to make an autonomous decision

Patients have the right to obtain full and complete information from their medical team, to ask questions, and to determine their agreement or refusal concerning: diagnosis, treatment (purpose, plans and methods), outcomes of care (including unanticipated outcomes), discharge plan, participation in medical research studies, organ transplantation/donation, etc. Within ethical boundaries, patients may discontinue or refuse treatment, request that the medical team explain and suggest alternative treatments, and reserve the right to make their own decisions.

3. Right to confidentiality

Patients' rights to confidentiality regarding their physical/health status and privacy will not be violated. Patients can expect that all medical records/reports and their personal privacy will be kept confidential unless the patient has given consent or disclosure is permitted by law. To ensure their privacy, patients may be informed that Individuals not directly involved in their care may not be present and that the number of guardians accompanying patients to consultation rooms may be limited.

4. Right to request consultation and mediation

In the event of a medical dispute, patients may request consultation and mediation from an internal or external agency (Korea Consumer Agency, Korea Medical Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Agency).

5. Right to have values and beliefs respected

Patients will not be discriminated against because of their culture, religious values, or beliefs, and their rights will not be violated.

6. Right to receive care in a safe setting

Patients have the right to receive hospital-provided care where the patient’s medical information is protected and patient safety can be assured. In addition, patients have the right to be protected from possible dangers that can occur in a hospital and to have stability of mind and body.

Patients' Responsibilities

1. Responsibility to trust and respect the medical team

Patients must accurately inform the medical team of their health condition and must trust and respect the medical team's treatment plan. Patients may be responsible for consequences that result from not following instructions.

2. Responsibility to not use dishonest methods for medical treatment

Patients must reveal their identity before receiving any medical care and must not use false or dishonest methods, such as seeking medical care under disguised ownership.

3. Responsibility to abide by all hospital regulations

Patients are expected to treat all hospital staff and other patients with courtesy and respect; to abide by all hospital rules; and to earnestly fulfill their financial obligation to the hospital. Also, patients and their family members are expected to participate in all safety regulations.