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Latest medical books] Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics / Hospital Architecture in Practice / Survival Weight Loss from Forty
Gyeonggi Medi News Reporter Kim Seon-ho Approved 2026.07.05 11:59 Comments 0
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■ An introduction to 'Bayesian statistics' through a doctor's eyes
Lee, Choon Sung, Director of the Spine Center at St. Peter's Hospital, has published ‘Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics’, an introductory book covering the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics.
Bayesian statistics is now increasingly applied in clinical practice as well, across areas ranging from clinical trial design and prediction of individual patients' treatment risk to estimation of diagnostic accuracy and prevalence and analysis of drug side effects.
Director Lee, Choon Sung first encountered Bayesian statistics 10 years ago during his time at Asan Medical Center; on finding a point of contact with medical judgment he became deeply interested and has studied it steadily ever since.
In clinical practice, rather than diagnosing a patient from a single test, physicians often repeat a process of judgment that combines the patient's symptoms, existing medical history, risk factors and response to treatment in order to improve the accuracy of care.
Dr. Lee, Choon Sung saw that this process has a structure similar to Bayesian statistical thinking, and noted that clinical judgment can be expressed in precise probabilistic language.
Dr. Lee, Choon Sung said, "Bayesian statistics is a tool that helps you make better decisions and judgments even under uncertain conditions and with limited information, and it can be usefully applied to solving a wide range of real-world problems, including those in clinical practice," adding, "I hope this book will allow more people to understand the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics and encounter a new perspective on statistical thinking."
■ A guide written by an expert with 15 years on hospital construction sites
A book covering every aspect of hospital architecture has been published by an expert who spent more than 15 years dedicated to hospital construction projects at design firms, large hospitals and other sites.
A hospital is a prime example of a complex building that runs 24 hours a day, with outpatient and central clinical departments, operating rooms, logistics systems and electrical and mechanical facilities all intricately intertwined. Yet operating principles that are self-evident to medical staff are unfamiliar to architects, and an architect's specialist design logic is invisible to medical staff, so gaps in communication easily arise.
The new book ‘The Reality of Hospital Architecture, Which Architects Do Not Know Well and Doctors Know Even Less’ is a practical guide written to reduce the misunderstandings that arise from this gap in common knowledge between the two sides and to prevent wasted budgets and design errors.
The author, Hong Chang-pyo, head of the architecture unit at the New Hospital Project Headquarters of Gangnam Severance Hospital, is an 'in-house hospital expert' who trained at the large design firm Hyundai Architects & Engineers Associates before leading major new-build and remodeling projects at Yonsei University Health System from 2009, including Yonsei Cancer Center, Yongin Severance Hospital and the Heavy Ion Therapy Center.
Drawing on first-hand experience of the entire process - planning, design and construction, as well as the defect feedback that arises in actual use after completion - he sets out in the book practical solutions for reducing misunderstandings between doctors and architects and preventing wasted budgets.
Hong Chang-pyo said, “Because medical staff and architects have a different ‘common sense’ about hospital architecture, minor assumptions that the other side must already know create gaps in communication, and some work ends up omitted or built differently from what was intended. I hope this book fills in the common knowledge of hospital architecture and serves as an interpreter and guide that smooths communication between the two groups.”
■ Weight management after 40 is not a diet but the start of restoring metabolic health
Professor Kim Kyung-gon of the Department of Family Medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital has published ‘Survival Weight Loss from Forty’, a new book that sets out a new paradigm for health management in middle age.
It is Professor Kim's first solo book, bringing together the clinical experience and the latest medical evidence from more than 30 years of researching obesity and metabolic disease and treating countless patients.
From the 40s in particular, the body's metabolic environment changes rapidly - muscle mass declines, sex hormones shift and insulin resistance increases - so that people gain weight easily on the same amount of food and find it hard to lose.
Professor Kim explains that these changes are commonly called 'middle-age spread', but that they are in fact the beginning of sarcopenic obesity, in which muscle loss and increasing visceral fat progress at the same time. If this state is left unaddressed, he says, the risk of developing a range of chronic conditions rises, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver and chronic kidney disease, as well as dementia and depression.
Muscle is not simply an organ for moving the body but the most important metabolic organ for consuming blood sugar, he advised, so after middle age the key to health management is protecting muscle rather than weight.
Professor Kim said, “Health is not something you prepare for once you are old; it is an asset built up steadily from middle age,” adding, “Your 40s are not when the body starts to break down but the last golden window that determines your health for the next 30 to 40 years. Changing your lifestyle now is the most effective investment you can make in a healthy old age.”
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Gyeonggi Medi News Reporter Kim Seon-ho Approved 2026.07.05 11:59 Comments 0
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■ An introduction to 'Bayesian statistics' through a doctor's eyes
Lee, Choon Sung, Director of the Spine Center at St. Peter's Hospital, has published ‘Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics’, an introductory book covering the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics.
Bayesian statistics is now increasingly applied in clinical practice as well, across areas ranging from clinical trial design and prediction of individual patients' treatment risk to estimation of diagnostic accuracy and prevalence and analysis of drug side effects.
Director Lee, Choon Sung first encountered Bayesian statistics 10 years ago during his time at Asan Medical Center; on finding a point of contact with medical judgment he became deeply interested and has studied it steadily ever since.
In clinical practice, rather than diagnosing a patient from a single test, physicians often repeat a process of judgment that combines the patient's symptoms, existing medical history, risk factors and response to treatment in order to improve the accuracy of care.
Dr. Lee, Choon Sung saw that this process has a structure similar to Bayesian statistical thinking, and noted that clinical judgment can be expressed in precise probabilistic language.
Dr. Lee, Choon Sung said, "Bayesian statistics is a tool that helps you make better decisions and judgments even under uncertain conditions and with limited information, and it can be usefully applied to solving a wide range of real-world problems, including those in clinical practice," adding, "I hope this book will allow more people to understand the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics and encounter a new perspective on statistical thinking."
■ A guide written by an expert with 15 years on hospital construction sites
A book covering every aspect of hospital architecture has been published by an expert who spent more than 15 years dedicated to hospital construction projects at design firms, large hospitals and other sites.
A hospital is a prime example of a complex building that runs 24 hours a day, with outpatient and central clinical departments, operating rooms, logistics systems and electrical and mechanical facilities all intricately intertwined. Yet operating principles that are self-evident to medical staff are unfamiliar to architects, and an architect's specialist design logic is invisible to medical staff, so gaps in communication easily arise.
The new book ‘The Reality of Hospital Architecture, Which Architects Do Not Know Well and Doctors Know Even Less’ is a practical guide written to reduce the misunderstandings that arise from this gap in common knowledge between the two sides and to prevent wasted budgets and design errors.
The author, Hong Chang-pyo, head of the architecture unit at the New Hospital Project Headquarters of Gangnam Severance Hospital, is an 'in-house hospital expert' who trained at the large design firm Hyundai Architects & Engineers Associates before leading major new-build and remodeling projects at Yonsei University Health System from 2009, including Yonsei Cancer Center, Yongin Severance Hospital and the Heavy Ion Therapy Center.
Drawing on first-hand experience of the entire process - planning, design and construction, as well as the defect feedback that arises in actual use after completion - he sets out in the book practical solutions for reducing misunderstandings between doctors and architects and preventing wasted budgets.
Hong Chang-pyo said, “Because medical staff and architects have a different ‘common sense’ about hospital architecture, minor assumptions that the other side must already know create gaps in communication, and some work ends up omitted or built differently from what was intended. I hope this book fills in the common knowledge of hospital architecture and serves as an interpreter and guide that smooths communication between the two groups.”
■ Weight management after 40 is not a diet but the start of restoring metabolic health
Professor Kim Kyung-gon of the Department of Family Medicine at Gachon University Gil Hospital has published ‘Survival Weight Loss from Forty’, a new book that sets out a new paradigm for health management in middle age.
It is Professor Kim's first solo book, bringing together the clinical experience and the latest medical evidence from more than 30 years of researching obesity and metabolic disease and treating countless patients.
From the 40s in particular, the body's metabolic environment changes rapidly - muscle mass declines, sex hormones shift and insulin resistance increases - so that people gain weight easily on the same amount of food and find it hard to lose.
Professor Kim explains that these changes are commonly called 'middle-age spread', but that they are in fact the beginning of sarcopenic obesity, in which muscle loss and increasing visceral fat progress at the same time. If this state is left unaddressed, he says, the risk of developing a range of chronic conditions rises, including diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver and chronic kidney disease, as well as dementia and depression.
Muscle is not simply an organ for moving the body but the most important metabolic organ for consuming blood sugar, he advised, so after middle age the key to health management is protecting muscle rather than weight.
Professor Kim said, “Health is not something you prepare for once you are old; it is an asset built up steadily from middle age,” adding, “Your 40s are not when the body starts to break down but the last golden window that determines your health for the next 30 to 40 years. Changing your lifestyle now is the most effective investment you can make in a healthy old age.”
Tag#Latest#Medical#Books#Bayesian#Statistics#Hospital#Architecture#Practice#Forty#Survival#WeightLoss