Rare bird, Mauricio Morales.
I, of course, respect my profession. I have enjoyed it, practiced it and I have also seen it for what it is: a human phenomenon of service and dedication to others, consoling, healing and relieving human pain.
However, I have also been able to see and live the commercial spirit that has permeated part of the practice of medicine, because some of my students behave according to the dictates of enlightened monetarism and the pragmatism that characterizes today’s society.
Of course, doctors no longer go to homes, but the patient has to go to their offices and hospitals, to see if, within their time, which is also outlined, there is space to experience the anguish and regret of patient, and offer possible relief to ailments and I have observed, in some of my now colleagues, the forgetfulness of the Hippocratic Oath.
But there are also many doctors who preserve the human experience of our profession and some, such as in the direction of Medical Services of the UANL, efficiency and care
I also found a doctor, Mauricio Morales, who caught my attention because he maintains the formulas of serving, attending and also visiting the patient at home, something that is no longer common, but one has to go to the doctor’s office.
I want and dream of my time as a doctor, and that is why I make this allegory, in which I find capable doctors; but many immersed in another way of being, which is mercantilism, enlightened monetarism, medical insurance; hospitals, except for the University Hospital, which continues to provide humanistic services.
Give love to my University Hospital, which continues to be the icon of humanistic medicine and to doctors who still preserve personalized medicine, like Mauricio. And a wake-up call to my colleagues, so that they do not enter enlightened mercantilism and remain on the sidelines, because we have a profession of service, of giving, understanding, healing and relieving.
Descartes: I think, therefore I am… Medicine is the most humane of professions. We must keep the Hippocratic oath: “Even if your enemy visits your house, you have to attend to him because above all, you are a doctor.”
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