Rep of Argentina and Mr Minister is a letter I received recently and I feel the need to share with you (citizens) comes from an Argentine doctor, the Board of the West Branch of Pediatrics, WHO THINKS DIFFERENT DR ZIN, Minister of Health of Buenos Aires Dr. Zin, Minister of Health of Buenos Aires province, told the media that "doctors are missing vocation." Here the answer from a colleague of La Rioja: To the Citizens of the Republic ARGENTINA - Response to Dr. Zin - > admit I have not the capacity nor the clarity of Emilio Boggiano, Sverdloff or Grenoville. They may say do not belong to doctors in Buenos Aires, but I admit that not seeing the correction of the Minister to trace surname (La Rioja not using the final c) , I feel, humbly, the obligation to make some dissent. Because when they touch one, touch us all. The Minister warned the population of the lack of vocation of doctors, especially pediatricians and neonatologists. And I think that is wrong.
The Minister of Health of Buenos Aires and the citizens of ARGENTINA:
DOCTORS HAVE vocation, MANY VOCATIONS :
> Vocation INDIGENT why we accept that we pay a great job misery. A $ 120 a Guard of 24 hours ($ 5 an hour) A medical consultation, the boletita it charges PC. and by allowing them to deduct monthly TOO "enjoyment" of Social Work, us pay us $ 8 to $ 26-depending on which is the Welfare-... but only after 60 days of the query. That is, they think they do not eat, or services do not pay taxes or rent, to within 60 days. The most common salary of a doctor is $ 1200, when it has the "lucky" to have an appointment. Otherwise, we are forced to run for office in office to "collect figurines ---> consultation orders you leave us, submission to make ends meet and just collect them at 2 months. The bus driver, in Rosario, charge a minimum wage-just come-from $ 3200 ... let alone what it charges a truck driver or an employee of Waste Collection Service
I want to remain DOCTOR, BUT AS CHARGED bus driver!
> ETERNAL STUDENT Vocation because we spend your entire life studying new things and going through old things (and tolerate the demands of those who come thinking that they know them all, because they read on the Internet)
> Vocation TEACHERS to teach people health care standards, warning of disease either in our offices or in the media (especially in small towns) without our sponsor Laboratories and , much less, that we pay for that.
> POLICE Vocation because we defend the children from the attacks of society, the ruling generated. And many times, juggling to increase a bit your diet and gain weight. We achieve this, international sometimes entire families, in public hospitals, only to have a few days of warmth, clean water y comida.
> Vocación de ABOGADOS para ir a Tribunales cuando nos requieran para informar sobre pacientes en el mejor de los casos o para defendernos de las acusaciones.
> Vocación de PACIENTES para admitir que nos pongan Ministros que no saben del manejo de las politicas de salud, Directores de hospitales amigos del poder, extraños que deciden cuánto dura y cuesta una consulta médica. Todo sin reacionar.
> Vocación de PSICOLOGOS con porque tenemos que detectar problemas sociales, familiares, etc. encubiertos en la SIMPLE consulta
> Vocación de SUICIDAS para seguir con esta profesion which has the highest rate of divorce, alcoholism, strokes, premature deaths and lower pay compared to other classic professions.
> SLAVES Vocation when we allow, based on the definition of essential services and from our training as medical residents, interns and students are not where we are residents, which in Latin, is the same as saying: FORRUM UTILISIMUS. And we get into our homes, disrupted family gatherings, phone call anytime, we schedule changes for convenience, do not allow us to have their own life.
> Vocation de MÁRTIRES en los momentos que debemos salir a todo lo que dá en una ambulancia hecha pedazos por calles destruidas para ir a un lugar donde no entraria ni Rambo con Swat para atender sin los elementos basicos y rogar que no te mates en un choque o que no te metan un tiro.
> Vocación de INOCENTES cuando permitimos que el presupuesto de la salud se lo lleven los empresarios, los funcionarios burócratas, los laboratorios, los sindicalistas y sigamos reclamando eternamente, que se lo aumente.
> Vocación de AUTODIDACTAS al costearnos la actualizacion que se no exige, después que el Estado gastó en formarnos y nos deja a la deriva.
> Vocation altruistic when we put our meager income to cover the needs that the state refuses to recognize from the bottle at the Clinic, to the 'cow' for the antibiotic (or coins for the passage of the last patient group) .
> vocation as a writer to record the clinical history everything thinking he should read the head in the morning or, worse, a judge, at some point ..
> SLEEPLESS Vocation to do without sleep working or concerned for our patients until dawn .. and continue working with the office in the morning.
> Vocation Giles to admit that doctors still say they're millionaires, lazy, comfortable and useless, based on an exceptional minority (those who hold public office or "borocotizan").
> national vocation to stay in this country to resist the temptation to social and economic surveys elsewhere, they can not believe that the prestige of the medical world Argentinos is minimized by their own countrymen.
> PACIFIST Vocation because every wrong answer to our work, gently ...
> ECONOMISTS Vocation to use drugs de dudosa procedencia, comprados en licitaciones "estatales" mas dudosas aún y que debemos hacer durar porque las reposiciones son aleatorias ó cuando debemos terminar de operar (o ver una garganta) con la luz del celular... porque aprovechamos al máximo los antibióticos o compartimos los tratamientos. Si hay miseria que no se note, no?.
> Vocación de AMANTES SILENCIOSOS y SOLÍCITOS para permitirnos que nos hagan lo que quieran, nos humillen y nos tiren dos mangos, mientras nos mienten que nos quieren.
ATENTAMENTE, LOS MÉDICOS de la REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA
