Professions such as those that encompass the health sector have a great dose of vocation, something that is often used as an excuse to perpetrate abusive working conditions —as the professionals denounce over and over once more— without failing to lack toilets willing to assume them.
A hematologist has referred to this issue in a reflection that he has published on his social networks. The specialist has been very critical of his sector, emphatically stating that “doctors are the dumbest group ever“. This doctor believes that “all our lives they have been telling us that ours should be vocation and with nothing in return“, a circumstance through which, according to his words, “there is legitimacy to all kinds of abuses“.
The health worker ends his comment by assuring that all medical professionals have “internalized” these abusive acts and that they assume “stoically everything”.
Doctors are the dumbest group that exists, because all our lives they have been telling us that ours should be a vocation and with nothing in return. And from there, legitimacy is given to all kinds of abuse. And we, who have internalized that, stoically assume everything.
— Javi (@javithot) May 25, 2022
It is time to ask for a fair Public Health
The intervention of this hematologist comes in the form of a response to the complaint of another Primary Care colleague who asks to fight for a “Fair Public Health”. He explains in a published infographic that she doesn’t want to “beg,” just “dot the i’s.” And he assures: “What are there 50 patients and I need 15 minutes for quality care? You take them and take care of them well. What are 30 left without seeing and none is urgent? Let them put a claim in the center”.
In a final statement, he asks his fellow health workers to face the current situation in order to change things. “This is not the time to bow your head. It’s the time to say: No, enough, I’m not going through there.” And he adds: “It is better that the (non-urgent) patient empowers himself, complains and joins the PCP, than giving a shit attention, rushed, poor quality”.
The letter concludes encouraging the rest of the doctors to take action, leaving public complaints aside, to fight for your labor rights: “Less complaining and more waking up and fighting.”
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