Need for mountain doctors growing in Japan amid trekking boom

Kazue Oshiro, a doctor specializing in mountain medicine, is examining a man at Hokkaido Ohno Memorial Hospital in Sapporo on July 7 2017. Oshiro, who was the team doctor when famed alpinist Yuichiro Miura climbed Mt. Everest at 80, became the first Japanese to obtain an international diploma in mountain medicine in 2010. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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