• The Korean Society of Law and Medicine
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.213-260
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• 2009

While the medical supplies have positive functions such as extending lifespan, recovering health, and preventing diseases, they also cause unexpected tragic consequences due to their side effects, and the magnitude of such damage inevitably increases due to the mechanism of mass production, mass distribution, and mass consumption of those medical supplies. Therefore, needless to say, the optimal way to prevent or reduce such damage is rather through medical supply manufacturers' producing non-defective products, or through the government's controlling production and sales of medical supplies with more aggressive exercise of regulatory authority on medical supply manufacturers, than through a remedy by a legal relief after using medical supplies. In this case, although the victim died due to the defect of the cold medicine, 'CONTAC 600', the drug company's responsibility to cover damages was not recognized because a defect could not be found in the then-manufacturing process. Thus, while pharmaceutical companies are gaining economic profits by producing and selling a medical supplies, if they do not take any remedy measures for the victims of their products' side effects, the victims have to use medical supplies under their own responsibility of taking a risk, and they have to accept the full damage of the potential consequence. Therefore, to remove such absurdity and contradiction, and to practically remedy the victim of medical supplies' side effects, the pharmaceutical side effects remedy project pending in the the Drugs, Cosmetics and Medical Instruments Lawneeds to be actively implemented.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 1999

In this paper, we report 3D-simulations of a plasma etching process by employing cell-removal algorithm takes into account the mask shadow effect os well as spillover errors. The developed simulator haas an input interface to take not only an analytic form but a Monte Carlo distribution of the ions. The graphic user interface(GUI) was also built into the simulator for UNIX environment. To demonstrate the capability of 3D-SURFILER(SURface proFILER), we have simulated for a typical contact hole structure with 36,000($30{\times}40{\times}30$) cells, which takes about 20 minutes with 10 Mbytes memory on sun ultra sparc 1. as an exemplary case, we calculated the etch profile during the reactive ion etching(RIE) of a contact hole wherein the aspect ratio is 1.57. Furthermore, we also simulated the dependence of a damage parameter and the evolution of topography as a function of the chamber pressure and the incident ion flux.

• 보건세계
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• v.46 no.8 s.516
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• pp.28-29
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• 1999

최근 한국보건사회연구원이 국민의 의약품 사용실태를 조사한 결과에 의하면 1천명중 33명이 매일 항생제를 복용한다. 이는 OECD 회원국가의 평균치 21명보다 월등히 높은 비율로, 약물남용이 우려할 만한 수준임을 보여준다. 이 조사는 또 97년도 의료보험 환자중 병$\cdot$의원에서 58.9$\%$가 항생제를 처방받았다고 밝혔다. 폐렴구균의 70$\~$80$\%$가 항생제 남용으로 페니실린에 내성을 보였는데 이는 아시아 최고수준이다. 약물남용은 항생제 뿐 아니다. 많은 사람들이 의사처방 없이 자가처방으로 약을 구입하며, 자가처방의 절반은 감기약을 구입하는데 이 경우 부적절한 처방이 문제된다. 더구나 감기약은 1가지만으로도 남용할 경우 부작용이 많은데 `판피린과 콘택 600을 주세요` 라는 식으로 물약과 알약을 동시에 주문한다. 이와 같은 약의 중복사용은 약물의 남용효과를 더욱 크게 한다.