Sick man, take care of yourself!
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Before the day of love hallucinations, let’s stop and remember that there are other diseases, for example, gastritis or trauma, which make us patients. On the World day of the sick let’s ask ourselves the question: have you managed to forget the last time when you met your doctor vis-à-vis, smelled the odour of a hospital...? No stranger to medical sciences, active, perceptive, not susceptible to “black” days and viruses – this is what a successful patient in the soviet medical system should have been like. In the same system where even in the 1990-ies almost half of the soviet hospitals lacked hot water, showers and baths. Back then ideas that the medical system should be reformed did not float around freely. Simply the rights of the equal and more equal were used in the free care of the Hippocrates oath.
Today we still gasp in our thirst for the medical reform which still shines brightly somewhere far beyond the horizon. Even though there is nothing to complain about – we have top class medical equipment. However, this equipment is reserved for top class clients only. While our modern patient has to be: no stranger to medical sciences, active, perceptive, not susceptible to “black” days…
Be safe!
Simona Štrimaitytė
Translation: Vytautas Povilas Jurgaitis
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