Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Claire's Best Friend Rings

Hospitals have to be large and effective

Italy is the place where the status quo can never change. Maybe not to touch so deeply rooted in the unequal privileges, perhaps laziness, perhaps out of fear, perhaps for no real reason. And when someone puts his hand to change something, that's always the sleepers to wake up and stretching, begin to protest. It does not matter against what the protest is important to prevent any change. But this is not the attitude a country that wants to grow and improve.

I am the first to desire an effective health system and widespread. But, objectively, to maintain a state of survival in a whole slew of small hospitals, it makes little sense. Have costs, often substantial. But most are not effective. I say effective because I do not doubt that they are efficient. Efficiency is related to the skill and motivation of staff who works there, the effectiveness is, however, the result of the availability of equipment, instrumentation and expertise, gained by dealing daily with patients suffering from various diseases. Hospitals have to be large, well equipped and full scientific and medical experience. It 'better to seek treatment from a hospital and doctors who know by heart our evil, which conveniently go to the hospital around the corner from home, but where the equipment is outdated and probably the doctor who assists us have only limited experience our disease.

Italy is the country where you can not make cuts to staff, even if they were right and necessary. It 's a complete and total opposition. However, for charity, I am convinced that cutting small hospitals does not mean dismissing staff. Simply use it in different ways. In fact, should, of course, strengthened at the local emergency rooms, the clinics, assistance home. The laboratories for blood samples for analysis would remain. In addition, large hospitals should expand, and then would need new doctors, nurses, support staff, administrative and other, and then you could move the staff from the small hospital to the general hospital. Perhaps in contrast to what happens today, someone should do 30-40 miles a day to go to work? Well not a problem, I, for example, I do it every day and I think it normal.

It 's true that such a transition, sacrosanct for me, should be accompanied by a series of parallel and compensatory measures. Besides the above mentioned relocation of staff, should be created in new bus routes to better connect the small towns with large hospitals should be granted new licenses to give the possibility to bars and related services with hospitals to move and continue their operations in other areas of the city should anticipate and resolve all discomfort, early, that a transformation of this type could result.

You can not reduce everything to a simple and dramatic scissor kick. But the right direction. We want Abruzzo trust our health care and right now we can not really do: realize it at the time of true need, faced with a serious illness, I challenge anyone to say that I have friends and acquaintances who have gone or are excellence in care in hospital in Modena, Milan and Bologna.

Furthermore, raising the level of the great scientific and medical hospitals, private hospitals should also adapt, leading to a real virtuous competition between public and private sectors which would generate additional benefits for our regional health system and therefore to our health.

In the meantime, I think it is always useful, and here is the duty of good newspapers and blogs involved, show people the realities of health comparisons between the different regions and make known to the public what you spend and what it offers as a region of Emilia Romagna to serve a population of one million three hundred thousand people and that, instead, spends and offers a comparison our region!

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