Word: toranomon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local doctor to see specialists in a hospital; they, too, are often not as rigorously trained and supervised as their American counterparts. "There is no licensing system or qualification test as a specialist," says Dr. Yasuyuki Hosoda, a leading heart surgeon who practices at Tokyo's Toranomon Hospital. Hosoda spent six years as a resident and researcher at the Cleveland Clinic and worked for ten years at the Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Mich...
...they are forced to take in more and more patients, which only increases expensive and lamentable overcrowding. Institutions that buy costly equipment often find it impossible to balance their books. Forty-three hospitals went bankrupt in 1982, double the number two years before. Says Dr. Kinori Kosaka, director of Toranomon Hospital: "Better medical treatment requires updated medical facilities, excellent doctors, nurses and technicians. But we can't charge extra. That is why it is so difficult to run a good hospital today...
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