Are We Willing To Pay The Price?
You know, I give the person who thought about this topic a huge credit for even coming up with it because in this current world of ours where numbers rule over dignity, where "how much is in it for me" outweighs value and passion, how can I not give an accolade to such person?
Wouldn't it be beautiful? A world where people work out of passion and not profit, where doctors work because they genuinely care for your health and not because they have heaps of loans to pay back or because they have to sustain the hospital's revenue?
No doubt it's very beautiful but then let's face the reality here and let's be honest; IT'S NOT POSSIBLE ANYMORE
The world we live in currently does not run in passion alone, it runs on money and this has become the chief motivator guiding the decision of each and everyone of us.
Let's talk about the healthcare system, a place I'm well oriented in and can dissect.
A young boy wakes up, picks a book about Ben Carson doing wonders as a medical doctor and suddenly develops passion for it, aspiring to be like him when he grows up.
That young boy works day and night burning his midnight candles to make sure he actualises this dream and luck being on his side, he's got supportive parents who were there for him paying all his tuition fees ensuring he never goes hungry throughout the course of his education.
He finally finishes from medical school and rekindles his burning desire to safe lives giving his very best to this cause.
Suddenly, he becomes hungry, he wants to get married, he embraces responsibilities which includes taking care of his parents that once took care of him, if he's fortunate enough, he'll have younger siblings looking up to him for stipends once in a while and within a flash of light, he realizes that passion will not solve any of these problems but rather money!!!
What do you think he should do? Wait for passion or find where his skill will fetch him more money even if it means where passion don't exist?
I'll let you to be the judge
So when we ask the question, How can we return to a time when people worked purely for passion? We must also ask ourselves a genuine question, "Can we afford it? Are we willing to pay the price?"
Are we willing to create a world where doctors don't have to go on strike like they are currently because they are not paid enough for their basic needs?
In the end , even NGOs and other humanitarian organizations depend on sponsorships, grants, and donations to survive, you know why? Because without Money, they can't even do anything meaningful.
In one way of the other, we've all become transactional, not out of greed but out of necessity and survival.
So, no, Doctors didn't stop caring rather caring became too expensive.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day ahead 👍
That's right about how the system changed, but I still believe it can be fixed. I completely agree with you very well written post.
Thank you
It can be changed of course, just that it'll take a while and do we even desire for it to be changed?
I think the majority is less for wanting to be changed.
Exactly, that's the first problem we have
Hmmmmmm ..... Like your whole narration is a mind changing and I'll say thanks for that. But I just wish in some way, our health workers might just be considerate to attend to patients in emergency needs before the insistent on finance. I understand everything runs on money nowadays but just to ensure that life is saved. I really hope
I do hope so too honestly especially when you're with them knowing you can actually do something to help but then you can't
The problem is, who pays for the immediate drugs needed and all emergency things needed?
That! Has always been the challenge. Who pays for them at those emergent time?
What about when they are okay and the family or someone pays? I thought some of these emergency stuffs are available in the hospital just like first aid box
I think I'm learning more about health line
It would have been very beautiful if every family sees the need to payback what was used to the care of their loved ones in their absence but then is it really what is obtainable?
NO
Most times, the patients even escape the wards and the nurse on duty is made to pay all the hospital bills.
What about the emergency drugs that have been used for the patient?
They never replace them and sooner or later, it gets depleted, so bad that you can't even see any around again to help someone else
I started Paediatrics with full emergency drugs within my reach, helping people in emergency situations but today, I have none, not even paracetamol because they never replaces them and leave the hospital like nothing happened forgetting that someone else will benefit from that.
These things are actually all bigger than what meets the eye
Yeah I quite understand this and I mentioned it in my article as well and it's just so sad how people tend to be ungrateful and cause harm to people with their own present acts.
It is well is all I can say cos even you guys hands are tied on this issue