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Parents Should Be One-Half Doctors
부모는 반은 의사여야 합니다
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| Dr. John Sangwon Lee |
The man known as the “Korean Dr. Spock” has helped tens of thousands of parents by giving them advice on how to care for their children, but regrets that he is getting through to only a small percentage of the 70 million Korean-speaking people in the world.
Dr. John Sangwon Lee, a pediatrician who has written the first comprehensive Korean pediatric encyclopedia of more than 1,000 pages, wants the entire world to know about his Web site, which offers free medical advice on topics ranging from nursing infants to how to deal with adolescents fighting depression.
If parents have questions, he answers them by e-mail, again free of charge.
“This is not about money. I make nothing from this,” says Dr. Lee, who is 69, retired, and living in Willimantic, Connecticut in the United States. “It is about helping people, and it is about love. I do it because this is what I want to do.”
The Web site is http://my.dreamwiz.com/drslee
, Now drleepediatrics,com
. It is written in Korean.
What Dr. Lee is doing is compelling. He is trying to help Korean-reading parents have an opportunity to raise their children in the best manner possible. He is passionate about his pursuit and is more than willing to tell his story to newspapers, magazines and other media outlets. He believes there are millions of parents who could benefit from his home page, but know nothing about it. With your cooperation, he can get the word out and help hundreds of thousands of children.
Any media representative wishing to set up an interview with Dr. Lee should e-mail him at leesangwonmd@yahoo.com. His telephone number in the United States is 860-456-4347. Also he is sincerely hoping that someone could join him to fulfill the exciting pediatric lay-people education task to help Koreans.
In all the world, he says, there is considerable poverty and people don’t always have ready access to a physician’s care.
His entire 21-chapter book, “Home Medical Care for Newborns, Infants, Children and Adolescents,” is included on the site. The book, if purchased alone, would cost $80. On his home page – which he opened in 2001 – the entire contents are free, in addition to information gathered from other sources.
Lee, although retired, spends as much as six to eight hours a day updating the site with the latest medical information and answering questions from parents through e-mail. At one time, he received as many as 10 e-mail questions a day. It is now even down to zero a day. His wife, Chunja, tells him why: “She tells me they don’t need to ask you questions. You already have given them the answers on your home page.”
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Dr. John Sangwon Lee with his wife |

