"In these days we have learned that a Doctor/Surgeon from the Island of Lanzarote has moved to the situation of a convict. The story began in an operating room and post - operating room where a patient unexpectedly went from a mundane life to ...
"In these days we have learned that a Doctor/Surgeon from the Island of Lanzarote has moved to the situation of a convict. The story began in an operating room and post - operating room where a patient unexpectedly went from a mundane life to an existence of a Higher Level.
During the very short transit, the patient does not suffer too much. The suffering remains for their relatives who so suddenly lose a loved one. For them my condolences and my affection from someone who has suffered a loss in very similar situations.
In recent decades, doctors have adopted more passive attitudes towards the disease. With this, patients stop benefiting from more active medical positions, although with more uncertain results. A Thyroidectomy is not a trivial operation, not at all. Neck surgery is one of the most difficult; a surgical field plagued with blood vessels that a surgeon has to avoid.
This passivity of doctors in the face of illness, in my opinion, has been generated for three reasons:
First: Doctors in our country are rewarded with Chinese Salaries, from the China of before. The fee for a total Thyroidectomy and 5 hours of intervention is around 50,000 euros. A hemithyroidectomy, the operation to which the patient was subjected, would be half. Coincidentally, 50,000 euros, before taxes, is the annual salary of a doctor in the Canary Islands Health Service.
Second: We enjoy a slave job. We see 50 or more patients, cover absences of our colleagues, we operate the same a neck, an abdomen or an anal fistula. With a splendid remuneration of "0" euros for extra work.
Third: "The last but not the less": We have to endure an American Judicial System, from those of North America, of course.
On the beaches of Florida we can find quite a few doctors pre-retired at 50 years old. At these ages certain skills begin to fail. In these paradises we can only find a couple of con men/read Spanish embankiadores. These gentlemen from Bankia, in theory a bank owned by all of us, with an effort 100 times less than what doctors must do and only with a simple Degree in the Faculty of Buddying, yes, with Honors, have been empowered to exercise their retirement rights.
They enjoy, as it could not be otherwise, a mansion with more stars than a galaxy in the Florida paradise, next to doctors and non-doctors with much more modest mansions. The graduates in this Faculty, curiously, are persecuted by a daring judge who decrees their monastic retreat. They have nothing to fear because the Judicial System in full redeems the apprentice monk, sends him to his paradise in Florida, and imprisons the daring Judge.
Aurelio Camarero, medical-endocrinologist, specialist in Thyroid Diseases.
