Illness and medication
If any doctor would care to treat a patient without prescribing medication, by adjusting diet, attitude, and breathing. I understand it’s a vain hope. As long as doctors get paid for prescribing pills, nothing will change.
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7 thoughts about the healthcare sector’s main problems
- Health concerns are not solved by the healthcare sector alone in the big picture, but rather by the economic success of society and the understanding at all levels of society that investing in health is worthwhile.
- Considering the current state of healthcare in Estonia, the idea of a mega-hospital …
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Emergency services for a fee
My recommendation would be to make ambulance services paid. Since I work in the ambulance service in Tallinn, I see how many calls are not emergencies but rather a convenience service. It's easy to call 112, and three staff members come and give paracetamol – people have no sense of …
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Three years of mandatory work in Estonian healthcare
A significant part of the shortage of doctors is due to the fact that they go abroad to work after graduating. The shortage of nurses, on the other hand, is caused by the fact that they move to the private sector, for example, to aesthetic medicine. If a requirement were …
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Fortunately, it is already the case that doctors do not receive payment for prescribing medication and treat the patient as a whole. For example, there are resources available to patients, such as the guidelines on healthy lifestyles, which can be accessed at https://ravijuhend.ee/patsiendivarav/juhendid/242/tervislike-eluviiside-soovitused. The responsibility for one’s health ultimately lies with the individual, and the doctor can only support this with modern, evidence-based treatment methods.
Without medication, the patient should take care of their own treatment. The doctor can’t force healthy food into their mouth if they don’t want it themselves.