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Community doctors are under insane loads. This is what they go through every day - Walla! health

2022-01-11T07:57:53.565Z


Today is the Israeli Doctor's Day of the Medical Association. Just in his honor, we asked a family doctor who has been dealing with unfamiliar challenges for the past two years to give us a glimpse of the new routine.


Community doctors are under insane loads.

This is what they go through every day

Today is the day of the Israeli doctor and physician of the Medical Association.

Just in his honor we asked a family doctor who has been dealing with unfamiliar challenges for the past two years to give us a glimpse into her new routine, difficulties and yes, even the beautiful parts

Dr. Orly Minis-Israeli

11/01/2022

Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 09:04 Updated: 09:42

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In the video: The Ministry of Health recommends performing antigen tests 3 days after exposure (Photo: Ministry of Health)

Two years into the corona plague and in the midst of the fifth wave, I find myself for the first time in isolation with the whole family, a good time for contemplation.



I have been a family physician for over 20 years.

To me this is the most beautiful field in medicine as it combines encounter with people and everyday challenges of original knowledge and thinking, communication and re-learning.

I think I'm one of those doctors who is happy to get up in the morning and get to work, curious what he will order me every day.



As a family physician I met with the corona virus two years ago.

Excerpts from rumors about an unknown virus and the feeling that there is something new and threatening again that looks like a severe flu and will pass with it in the spring.

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Then the first wave began and with it the first closure and we learn as GPs to conduct ourselves in a new reality that includes a sense of importance on the way to working with a doctor sign on duty, alongside phone queues, virtual queues, masks that hide all their expressions so everything goes into expression.

And at the same time, the children are left at home with distance learning and a suffocating closure.

The phone in the clinic rings in conversations with patients and the private phone rings constantly in conversations with the children.

Concern for patients as well as children at home.

Dr. Orly Minis-Israeli (Photo: Courtesy of the photographers)

A second and third and even a fourth closure bring our morbidity and capabilities to the extreme by improvising remote solutions, opening up multiple communication options that sometimes overwhelm me and my friends.

In a workload we have never known before when the fear is constantly on my head, lest I make a mistake in remote identification, that I will know how to listen, contain and have compassion even when I am exhausted after the forty or fiftieth patient that day.



I am in constant concern for aging parents and children who are already going crazy at home, looking for bright spots and respite.

I realized already in the second wave that this virus is going to accompany us for a long time and we must learn to live with and alongside it.

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Out of all the difficulty and all the clutter at home and at work I discovered wonderful things:



the mobilization of all the staff - doctors, nurses and secretaries for the joint effort - opening test points, vaccination complexes, conversations with Corona patients, countless hours outside the familiar and known role, but so important.



I learned that outside the hospital, in the community where I work, there is wonderful medicine, and family medicine in particular. And despite the burden on hospitals - most of the things we manage to solve in the community, because most of our patients stay, fortunately, at home.



I have discovered a whole world of colleagues who are willing to listen to me when I have difficulty and I to them. About groups that were set up just to change ways of thinking and give solutions in real time. I learned that the wisdom of the masses often helps to find solutions, and that even under the greatest load there will be someone to reach out to me.



I knew the reality that changes news for the mornings and it is not always possible to plan something in advance.



I was happy for the smile that is also felt through the mask and illuminates the patients' faces when they feel I was there for them.

And sometimes, unaware of it, they were there for me.

I learned that the young doctors I train discover new solutions every day and actually grow into a reality that would not be familiar to me as a family doctor.



And also in my private life I learned to enjoy the little things and the little joys - a flowering trip in the mountains around the house on a sunny spring day with my spouse and children, a holiday I celebrated with the extended family and a birthday I was able to celebrate for the family.

I mostly learned humility in this plague.

The fifth wave poses new challenges.

People queuing for antigen testing (Photo: Shai Makhlouf)

These days the fifth wave of the Corona epidemic presents us with new challenges, both in terms of the numbers of patients and in terms of the challenging combination of flu and Corona that brings me and my colleagues once again to unprecedented load peaks.

And I am again amazed at how we reinvent ourselves, as GPs - how we repeatedly manage to balance the delicate balance between home and family.

Workload and maintaining maximum professionalism.



In the midst of all this chaos around, queuing for tests like everyone else and meeting deadlines for getting patients, I try to breathe and tell myself that everything will pass.

In a few years we will laugh at everything and remember only anecdotes.

"The doctors are exposed to the smear campaign"

"This is the sixth time we are marking Israeli Physician's Day, and the second time with a global epidemic in the background. Physicians in Israel have been at the forefront of a war against a deceptive virus for two years, one that continues to challenge the entire medical world," says Prof. Zion Hagai. R. The Medical Association



.

In an age of uncertainty, of Pike News and of a consistent erosion of public trust, medical professionals have taken on this important role.

It also has a price: Leading the propaganda exposed the doctors to a campaign of slander and attacks that we did not know from the right, by a handful of powerless and unstoppable.



I would like to strengthen your hands, thank you for the mission and dedication and for the many nights you do for the patients and for the entire Israeli public. "

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