Resumen de El colega como paciente. Parte 2
- español
Un médico general de provincia consulta a un médico oftalmólogo por un problema visual que lo aqueja y que está afectando su desempeño día a día. Solicita una consulta que debe pagar por el sistema de medicina prepagada al cual está afiliado. Pese a que se identifica como médico, no logra una cita con buena oportunidad y al asistir a esta se encuentra que, a pesar de ser colega del oftalmólogo, debe cancelar el copago exigido. Cuando pregunta si como colega del médico tratante no tiene exención del copago, le contestan que dicha excepción de cobro de servicios médicos a los colegas quedó abolida con el advenimiento y desarrollo del sistema de seguridad social en salud que el país adoptó hace unas décadas. El médico paciente paga con malestar el copago exigido y al regresar a su hospital, se queja de la falta de colegaje de su médico tratante. Decide consultar su caso a un comité de ética médica de la región.
- English
A provincial general practitioner consults an ophthalmologist for a visual problem that afflicts him and is affecting his day-to-day performance. He requests a consultation to be paid by the prepaid medicine system to which he is affiliated to. Despite identifying himself as a doctor, he does not get an appointment with a good opportunity, and when attending it, he finds that, despite being a colleague of the ophthalmologist, he must pay the required co-payment in addition. When he asked if, as a colleague of the treating physician, he is not exempt from paying co-payments, they answered that this exemption from charging colleagues for medical services was abolished with the advent and development of the social health security system that the country adopted a few decades ago. The doctor patient pays the required co-payment with discomfort and, when he returns to his hospital, complains about the lack of collegiality from his treating doctor. He decides to refer his case to a medical ethics committee in the region.
