a sad day
Yesterday was a sad day for our country, very sad.
Within hours, the Senate passed the bill that calls for medical safety (and then back to health care more generally) to report any illegal immigrants who present in emergency room care and prepared to ask for, fortunately for now they have only stopped them, an ad hoc decree to stop the poor father of Eluana in an attempt to leave a better life of the child.
Well over three hours we have demonstrated to be able to go back, of backwardness and barbarism. Congratulations.
Both themes interest me very closely. The first, well ... work in the emergency room and then more concerned about the case ... so I brought Eluana dissertation on those themes, I interviewed several people about, I was very interested and also working at the hospital daily living situations with maybe not as extreme as that of Englaro, but when you are making choices. On the subject of illegal
not want to enter the racism problem, the obligation to provide care to all etc etc, on this we all have our ideas and we keep there. I want to focus on one aspect of the problem more practical, more down to earth, less philosophical, but that would probably be out immediately and repeatedly.
The illegal immigrants come ready soccroso and risk their complaint, then return and no problems. The cases are two: they are no longer in first aid or medical personnel come and "becomes" criminal police and the patient.
In the first case, the part of the country who can not look beyond the his nose would fall so that the queues for those who pay taxes and so forth, but do not think the problem that a patient is not always better to be cared only for himself but also for the community that surrounds it.
With the advent of illegal immigration are returning diseases that had virtually disappeared. On all tuberculosis (cases are frequent), but not only, also diseases such as scabies, pneumonic plague and the like is coming back in our countries and their capacities are often immigrants. If the diseases are transmissible and dangerous is much better than the person being cared for in a hurry rather than plagued people for people to stay away from doctors. The desperation of some People come to the point where they would rather die under a bridge, spitting blood, rather than return to their country.
assumption number two, that the underground is the same patient in the emergency department taking the risk to the health workforce. The moment a person feels hounded you never know what reaction might have. Work from 7 months and I assure you that even with laws so far the risks to staff are not just in the emergency room. Imagine if an illegal immigrant should have the feeling that the doctor who is visiting are pulling for the long visit pending the arrival of the authorities. And if it starts beating? If he pulls out a knife? The doctor and nurses are trained to do anything else, not to keep potential criminals at bay.
Two aspects of the problem does not seem to me recently, do not you?
Englaro case is not to say anything more, I'm just disgusted.