Greetings friends all, I hope you are having a better day today. Today I want to tell you about a case that has worried me a lot about a patient to whom I performed an ultrasound study. I do not know how it’s in your countries but here the patients were treated with much nobility and love. I have and keep memories of when I trained as a doctor because I had a group of professors who were concerned that the mystique of the doctor should not be lost.

Of course, there are all kinds in the Lord's vineyard. There are good and bad people everywhere. I cannot say that it should not be like that just because we are physicians, no, I cannot say it because we are human beings first and foremost and anyone can sin.

If a human being has no feelings or empathy for the pain of others, he can never be a human being and as a complement a medic and human being with a good heart.

I have been very lucky because the times I have needed a colleague to take care of me, he has done it very well and I have improved one hundred percent. I can't say for some of the patients I have referred for hospital care. I can't say that they have been cared for properly and were fortunate enough to encounter good treatment.

Almost a week ago I was able to treat a patient and I indicated to the relatives that she should be treated and hospitalized, but they were unlucky enough to encounter the precarious situation that my country is going through. The doctors they went to did not hospitalize her and sent her home with a diet as if she were suffering from an inflammation of the stomach or colon.

My diagnosis as an ultrasound doctor was of no use to them, they took her back several times and today the patient has not been hospitalized yet and they only treat her for the emergency.

Do you know what it is to feel pity? When someone commits a fault and the other person feels pity or pain because that person made a grotesque mistake… That is what I feel today.

I feel a terrible pain in my heart because it’s impossible by medical ethics for a patient to go to a hospital for help and for more than 4 times they send her back home because they say whatever they want and do nothing.

I know that the patient had been suffering from pain for a long time but that is no reason to keep leaving her in pain, in an endless back and forth and not give her a definitive diagnosis to help her get better. Many of you will feel reflected in what I am saying, but I cannot say that this is the way it was before, the way being treated here was.

I believe that the pandemic, instead of bringing out the best in people, has allowed the worst to come out. My country is falling apart, little by little from the bottom, undermining the foundations and reaching the top to end a health system that I was proud to belong to. With all that is happening now, know that I feel very hurt in my heart and my hands are tied.

Why? Because while I strive to do what is humanly possible and find a good diagnosis to help my fellow man, others who are on the other side of the health care system are allowing everything to go down the drain.

Friends, excuse me but I had to drain myself by writing what my heart feels. Knowing that my patient has not yet been cared for as God's law and the law of medical practice commands. I feel helpless and sad that I did the best I could to diagnose and the others in several of the larger hospitals in my city still have not agreed to help this lady who could be anyone's mother, sister, aunt.

I feel that we are very far from healing as a country, that my land is becoming more and more a place without repair, with dehumanized people without feelings.

I only ask God to touch the heart of someone who is an authority in a hospital center and save the life of this lady who needs it today.

Thank you, my dear ones, for reading and leaving your comments. I love you all.

I'm @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world.