Your Rights and Responsibilities

We believe that medical service should be made in cooperation with the patient and medical provider having a relationship of mutual trust. We will notify the patients’ basic rights and respect it with the clinic’s ideology in order to make a clinic that can be trusted. At the same time we will state what we want the patients to abide to and notify this as the ‘Patients’ Rights and Responsibility’.

Patients ‘Rights

Right to receive a good quality medical service

The patients have a right to receive a good quality medical service without regard of their medical problems and social standing.

Right to receive respect as an individual

All of the patients’ shall be respected as an individual with original values, and must be treated as one human being and have the right to state their own opinion.

Right to receive proper explanation and information

All patients have the right to receive an explanation and information of their disease, examination, treatment, danger, other treatment options, costs in a language and method which is easy to understand.

Right to make a selection/ decision on their own initiative

All of the patients have a right to select and make a decision concerning the examination or treatment which they will undergo after an explanation. They also have a right to reject medication which they do not desire or select the medical facility which they want to visit. They may also request their medical records or second opinion in order to attain that.

Right to not have a third party receive their medical information without consent（Privacy Protection）

All of the patients have a right to have their body condition and diseases and other medical information and privacy protected.

Patients’ Responsibility

Medical service is possible with the proactive participation of the patient and is a cooperative operation. The patient has the following responsibilities.

Responsibility to provide accurate medical information and effort to understand diseases and medical care

The patient has a responsibility to notify the physician and medical provider their body condition and life style and necessary information accurately and ask questions until they understand their disease or the medical service they will receive.

Responsibility to pro-actively participate in medical care

The patient has the responsibility to pro-actively participate in the policy which they agree to for the examination or treatment they will receive.

Responsibility to cooperate in making a comfortable environment for medical service

The patient has a responsibility to abide to the clinic rules and instructions by the clinic staff in order to make a comfortable medical environment The patients also have a responsibility to respect the social rules and care for other patients’ privacy and also properly make the payment for the medical service fee.

Regarding radiation exposure

According to recommendations from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), there is no risk of carcinogenesis, leukemia, etc. if the radiation exposure is less than 100 mSv per year.
https://www.icrp.org/

When undergoing a medical checkup at our clinic, the radiation exposure for the following examinations is less than 0.04mSv in total, as it is for chest X-ray (0.5mSv or less), chest CT (0.6mSv or less), abdominal CT (100mSv or less), visceral fat CT scan (XNUMXmSv or less), and upper gastrointestinal X-ray contrast examination (XNUMXmSv or less). It is not expected that the amount of radiation exposure will have any adverse effect on the human body.
*However, the dose will be lower for thin people.

In addition, while it is said that the frequent use of CT scans overseas may increase the incidence of cancer, the use of CT scans allows for detailed examinations in a short time without pre-treatment, greatly reducing the burden on patients. As a result, there is the advantage that early detection of lung cancer and other diseases is possible.
In fact, at our clinic's medical checkups, you can choose between an upper gastrointestinal X-ray contrast test or an endoscopic examination, and we recommend the endoscopy, which provides a more accurate examination.
At the same time, we often recommend MRI/MRA for the head, and we also recommend MRI first as a follow-up to abdominal ultrasound.
MRI, ultrasound, and endoscopy do not emit radiation, and contrast agents are not used in normal examinations.

Additionally, we are aiming to develop blood markers for early, non-invasive cancer detection.