Trauma can be the physical result an injury caused by an external source, or it can be mental harm caused by war or other perceived or real threats to life.
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Why is South Korea's preventable trauma death rate so high?
It currently sits at about 30% give or take, which is extremely high given they are a developed country and compared to stats in the US and Japan of 10-15%.
Source: South Korea's Ministry of Health, via Reuters news agency:
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How can a hospital not have enough resources to deal with serious trauma?
I was looking at a news article about South Korea's trauma center shortage, and there was a story about a man with a ruptured intestine being transferred between smaller hospitals before finally reaching a trauma center. It said that those smaller…
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