미용성형수술에 관한 면허 외 의료행위에 관한 고찰

Traditionally, medical practice has been understood as an act of promoting health through treatment such as diagnosing the symptoms of a patient who has a disease, and invading the body to remove the patient's pain or abnormality. On the other hand, cosmetic surgery is to invade the human body according to the subject's subjective demands in a normal state without disease. Therefore, it has been controversial whether cosmetic surgery belongs to medical practice. However, cosmetic surgery is also an invasive activity that may cause health and hygiene risks, and therefore it belongs to the category of medical treatment that a medical practitioner with a license must perform. In Korea medical law, it is an unlicensed medical act when a person carries out a medical act other than his license. Recently, the Supreme Court sentenced a medical judgment on the cosmetic surgery outside the license. The act of cosmetic surgery of the dentist and the Korean traditional doctor was a problem. The purpose of this article is to examine the specificity and legal nature of cosmetic surgery, the medical treatment of cosmetic surgery, and the regulations on medical practices outside the license of medical practitioners in Korean medical law. The purpose of this study is to investigate the criteria of medical treatment for cosmetic surgery. In particular, the Supreme Court judges the scope of the license based on the regulations and the purpose related to the medical act, the academic principle which is the basis of the medical act, the process of medical act․purpose. However, the court also needs to judge the specificity of cosmetic surgery and health risks that may be caused by cosmetic surgery operation more carefully.