An example of "medical system" and my own  physical and moral experience

Hello my friends!

Today I am agitated and don't want to relive those feelings ever again - angry, confused, indignant, helpless and disappointed about the medical system and my own painful physical and moral experience.

I worn U that this article is not for nervous people and hope U have patience to read it entirely.

I just want to jump ahead and tell U After almost 2 years after my surgical intervention - I have a huge scar on my shoulder that is demonstrating one more time the deeply ROTTENNESS of the entire medical system here in my country.

I finally decided to write about our rotten medical system or what is being called a medical system but in reality it is a chaotic, inefficient, corrupted and "prehistorical" way to treat a whole country. 

Though I am very familiar with our medical system because of my two children, I keep surprising of how deeper it can drown and that it getting IMPOSSIBLE to change it. 

Every time my kids got seek, usually, I used to consult one or two or even three specialists like pediatrician or otolaryngologist who prescribed totally different treatments and in the end my children just got to take antibiotics each time and a lot of other medicines. And in the end I transformed into a "doctor" and have to decide how to treat them with minimum of antibiotics - and that is difficult thing to do - to assume responsibility.

But, I want to describe another case - that happen to me, not so long ago, and the remain scar  would remind me about it for a long time. 

I had a little beauty spot that I decided to remove long ago but postponed it every time. And now with a little courage I decided it was the time to do it. 

And so it began. It took me several days to call the medical clinic to make and appointment for the procedure -I hoped it would be a cosmetic procedure minimum invasive and that I would forget about it after a few days -but NO, not in out country.

After calling to get an appointment I was told that I should present my ID, medical insurance and a MEDICAL REFERRAL from my GP (general practitioner) and without all three documents I could not go there. 

At first I called my GP (I am privileged because I have the phone number of my GP and can call him directly) and he told me that in order to have a medical referral for the procedure I should get the general blood test and general urine test. So I went to a private clinic -payed money of course, and get done my blood and urine test in the same day with results in several hours. 

I am a person with medical insurance so normally I should have made an appointment at my GP, go there in several days and get the referral for the blood test and urine test. In the day specified in the referral (that is 1 or 2 or maybe 3 days later from the day the GP issued the referral to me) I should go to the clinic for blood and urine test. The results I could receive one or two days latter after collection of blood and urine. And with the results I should get back to my GP so that he gave me a medical referral for the procedure of removal of my beauty spot. 

And whole that procedure usually could take U about 2 weeks or maybe even more, if U have the time to go every 2 days to clinic at the hour U been appointed -that suppose that U don't work and stay home (without a child) , because U have to take the child with U or leave him with a babysitter -but that's impossible for so many times.

Ok, I skip some procedures that would have taken me 2-3 weeks or more and several visits to my clinic on hours that are being established without my acknowledgment - but I paid money for the tests. And anyway with the results on the paper (we have here a rule "without a paper sheet - U are a shit" ) , my husband went to GP and took that MEDICAL REFERRAL i nedeed.

In one of next days, I asked for my sister in low to stay with my children for a couple of hours, at the first hour, I went to the specific clinic with all I nedeed - my ID card, my yellow medical insurance on paper and the MEDICAL REFERRAL for the procedure.

I was directed to a doctor in a cabinet. Went there and waited at the door, for him to come. I was the firs one in the raw, after me already came several persons. The doctor came and I entered to be consulted. He inspected my beauty spot and sad that I should consult a surgeon. With no explanations he wrote something on a paper and give it to me. 

   I went to another door for another consult. There was a lot of people waiting by the door. I asked for the last and was told that the doctor is at the surgery room (making surgeries at that time)  and I had to wait for him. I've decided to wait in order not to come in another day again. 

   So, I've stayed there for 3 hours. In that time i've seen several people who were appointed for the surgery on that day. They entered the surgery room and walked out each after 20-30 min and looked just fine to me. I made a conclusion it's something easy and painfullest, but it not turned to be so for me. Finally  the doctor finished the surgeries and starting consult people waiting in the raw. At my turn, after 3 hours by the door, looking at different people and emotions, I got consulted. He inspected my beauty spot and asked me for the day I wanted to come for the intervention. I chose the next available day - approximately in one week. He told me there was nothing complicated, the beauty spot is a little one (0,8 cm) and it should be an easy procedure. 

   But NOBODY explained to me that it would involve a cutting with a scalp, a sewing with a string and 3-4 procedures of bandage during next 2 weeks and a great physical pain!!!!  And all that for a little beauty spot that I could remove with another kind of procedure (azote, laser) maybe in another clinic!!!!! And with less pain and moral damage!!!

   On the established day I went there for the second time, at the first hour (as I was told to come, not to get late because the doctor would made a list of patients and I should enter according to the list and seriousness of the case).  I left my kids with my sister in law again, and I was surprised to wait there by the door for 1 hour more. I was told to pay 355 lei for the surgery - and I paid without asking why should I pay - if I have a medical insurance and I had all the requested documents, because I was in a state shock a little for what was going to happen. And I should tell U I did'n receive any receipt!!! After going home I kept thinking on and on at that fact that I've paid anyway and get no receipt -and I blame myself for not asking why did I have to pay.

Lets see what happend next - for 1 hour everyone who was appointed for that day waited in the hall, except the doctor was in his cabinet and he consulted several new persons, one by one, then the same persons consulted during that hour waited on the hall with all the others that had appointments and finally the nurse announced the surgeries. 

   I was convinced that I would enter among the first, but NO. I was surprised to see that one by one there were announced the persons who just in that morning entered the doctors's cabinet, and not the one with the appointment.  

   And then I realized the GREAT PAINFULL TRUTH - there were no need of all those paper sheets like medical referral, all that blood and urine tests and all that wasted time with visits at GP - all I neded was MONEY and information of course, and I could come directly to that surgeon in the morning, pay to him cash and get the surgery done at the same day!!!!  But who knew ????? -This is our medical system.

    And after I was brightened I was called by the nurse for the surgery - what could I tell U - I got lay on a medical bed, the doctor told me to turn the head to another side, used a injection several times to anesthetize the place and CUT, the sewed several times and commentated that I have a thick skin and it was hard for him to sew, then the nurse put a bandage and said it was over. Then the nurse explained to me that I should exchange the bandage 3 or 4 times, and I could go to her or to my local clinic for that and in 2 weeks to get back there again for the results of the test and removing of threads. 

   I went home disappointed and I had a serious break down with tears and depression about the whole thing that happen to me. 

    I was mad on me because I went there for that procedure and did not searched for another place for removing my beauty spot in another way.

      I was angry because I paid and did not asked why ???

     I was furious because I felt pain for several days after and I asked for a nurse (I knew) to come home and change bandage for 3 times and at the end to remove threads.

       I was upset and I am upset on the whole our medical system.

 But first of all I made a huge conclusion - here, in my country, U should search for information and get into every procedure - and became a little bit of a doctor by yourself - before getting done a procedure!!!

Hope it was not so pessimistic and sad! 

But it is sad!

P.S. After almost 2 years after my surgical intervention - I have a huge scar on my shoulder that is demonstrating one more time ROTTENNESS of the entire medical system here in my country.

Take good care and be always HEALTHY!!!!

W.Lady

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