2023-05-11 23:31:51
It is a reality that people today make a great effort to pay their prepaid medical bills, without this leading to a better quality of care.
Being a doctor, with 39 years of profession, my 86-year-old mother was admitted to a sanatorium near Arenales street.
Her name is María Rosa V and not the old woman from room 420, as a doctor without humanity called her.
It took place over a weekend, he presented an acute condition, but the notorious thing is that once the situation was discussed with the doctors involved, they disappeared, without there being a person to personally report on the decisions made.
The decisions depended on the guard, which today is constantly saturated by the large number of queries.
In other words, 7 floors of an institution, managed at random, reactively according to what happened, perhaps subjected to a kind of artificial intelligence, which would make decisions.
The contact with a doctor supposed that my mother was there for a topic, and not as a patient with multiple pathologies, all of them intertwined.
Still, we are not aware of the risks of a fragmented, dehumanized medicine, with doctors who do not have the Argentine idiosyncrasy, subjected to many hours of work, and many of them without the necessary qualifications.
The Excel spreadsheet, mark, half the people, paying double, and working triple, I translate; the economy has reached the foundations of medicine, and has caused a great earthquake, of which we do not know the final consequences.
I do know that health is not a commodity.
I return to the case, following 7 days of hospitalization, a doctor appears, emerged from the eighth ring of Dante’s divine comedy, who said with astonishing certainty that my mother was discharged that day.
My sister, with great skill, calls me, since that doctor did not take into account my mother’s needs, such as cures, follow-up, body hygiene (of course, it was not her mother); Thanks to that explanation given to the professional, my mother stayed hospitalized until, in her house, there were the necessary things to preserve her precarious health.
But another reality, he was lurking, one Friday another doctor appeared, saying that, from that moment on, they were all isolated, due to the presence of a terrible bug in the fecal matter, called Clostridium Difficile.
Panic, horror, nobody explained anything, the message was, Isolation!
Another urgent call, from the caregiver who was diabetic, and the mere mention of isolation, thought that she would be imprisoned with my mother, for the rest of her life, as happened with the covid.
I called her to contain her, and give her guidelines for her care; the next day, her bug had disappeared, as well as the isolation, false alarm.
But the last day, was the icing on the cake, the ambulance transfer to his home, a true epic, epic like few others, it was requested at 3:00 p.m., and diligently, or diligently, it arrived 4 hours later.
That virtue on the part of the person who suffers from it is called stoicism.
It is obvious that health is not, nor will it be, an agenda item for our politicians.
What I do know is that, during 2022, the accumulated annual increase closed at around 100%, with quota increases of 9% in January; 6% in March; 6% in April; 8% in May; 10% in June; 4% in July; 11.34% in August; 11.53% in October and finally 6.9% in December. Until now, in 2023, there was a rise of 6.9% last January and there are others scheduled.
As a doctor, I understand the circumstances facing the sector, and its effort to carry out benefits in the face of galloping inflation; What remains clear is that the benefits must be of quality, providing humane treatment, not fragmenting the system, with qualified professionals, since good medicine is the cheapest.
That’s all.
Gracias.
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