How to survive in a Russian hospital

Unfortunately, the current state of Russian medicine is extremely deplorable. The reforms, may not have hammered the final nail into the lid, but at least badly undermined the once mighty organized system. If before we were confident in the competence of the attending personnel, the recent news from the fields are more and more information about medical malpractice and negligence. State medical institutions and do cause concern.

Fully protect itself from contact with hospitals impossible. If there was a trouble, you need to make some effort and strictly follow the simple rules. Otherwise, you can not only recover, but also to get other diseases, perhaps far more serious.

Personal hygiene - health pledge

Toilet - main hospital danger. Where you can get almost any infectious disease. All that can hurt people, primarily accumulates it in the toilet. there are specific nosocomial infectionsCaused primarily rotaviruses, staphylococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A chance to catch them on the outside is quite low, and deaths due to specific health problems in patients is very high.

Also in hospitals is high chance of contracting hepatitis, tuberculosis, and some types of pneumonia. Therefore, if you feel unwell, you should inform your doctor. The common cold in a hospital setting can lead to fatal consequences.

In addition, you often to wash hands (At least before each meal reception), face and wash the nose. Hands and face - with antibacterial soap. Should use disposable paper toilet seat and disposable towels. On arrival home will not be superfluous to spend antibacterial processing of personal belongings and clothes, even if you come on the weekend and take a shower with antibacterial soap. After all, you can not only get sick myself, but also infect loved ones with poorer health.

Neighbor - and friend and foe

Of course, it is nice if the neighbors will be good people. But do not forget the first paragraph of this article. Treat them with caution. At the hospital, all the sick. All different immunity. Therefore, we must clearly separate the personal belongings of the public (the latter should be used with caution and only in case necessary) and visible symptoms of infectious diseases from the neighbors at least ask about the possibility of transfer to another ward. Doctors may well view some sore of a man who, even when using the same basin will go to you.

It is better to overdo it

The load on the medical staff is enormous. And among the nihilists has more than enough (like everywhere else, but it's a different story). Therefore it is necessary to thrust deep pride and complain all the existing (real) reasons. Easy malaise amid serious diseases may be the first sign of significant problems.

Also keep in mind that every department of the hospital is responsible for its range of diseases. If you have more than one, it is likely that the treatment will be carried out one at a time only. In the presence of chronic health problems, you should notify the physician, to closely monitor the state of health. If you suspect a worsening or if you require further assistance - require calling a doctor from a neighboring department. Do not ask - demand. You may need and quarreling. It makes sense to refer to the head of department or the head physician. Rather, they are the administrators and regulate these issues.

Go out - not prove

Unfortunately, negligence and carelessness on the part of doctors very much. If this suddenly happened, the guilt of the medical staff to prove almost impossible, because almost everything you can find an excuse. Therefore, it is necessary to document the violation or negligence and promptly, without delay, to complain. First, to go to the head physician, then - in a regional office MOH (depending on the complexity of the situation). Complaint must be submitted prior to hospital discharge. After all the problems will simply be ignored, but to prove something will be very difficult.

Phone hotline, which you can file a complaint, his in every region.

Little life hacking: the threat of a complaint with the Ministry of the majority of disputes are resolved without any real appeal to the Ministry of Health and the forces of the head physician of the local staff.

My tongue - my friend

It should ask whether a treatment can be carried out once more. Any therapy or surgery is performed on the averaged pattern that you can not approach or become less quality than the alternative. Therefore it is better to ask doctors and in the presence of a suitable treatment options insist on their application. This is especially true of operations - always have time to cut. Perhaps for alternative treatment will have to pay a large sum or go to another clinic. But often it's worth it.

Take the time to demand a detailed explanation of what treat, how to treat and cure why it is so. In recent years, cases of a flagrant denial of medical staff deal with certain categories of patients. In this case, people who are able to live more for some time, a sharp transition into the category of hopeless and instantly burn. Improperly selected and outdated methods of treatment - the scourge of the Russian medicine.

Pay procedure is not a panacea, but a plus

Another stone in the garden of our medicine. Strangely taking the same people in free and paid clinics. But the development of free institutions froze somewhere in the 50-ies and in the paid hospital or paid admission may offer something more advanced. Who knows, maybe these treatments will be more effective, although it paid doctors need to check.

Oh, and another thing: there are almost always paid boxes for one or two people in the room. Great practical benefit from them, at first glance, no. But, oddly enough, in many hospitals, patients lying in these wards are given more attention.