{"id":999,"date":"2021-06-01T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2021-06-01T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T07:00:04","slug":"yellow-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toktali.com\/blog\/yellow-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow paper, or Hippocratic Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rettung\"<\/a>Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money.
\nIf to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich.
\nIt seems there is no sphere of life free of common monetary passion. But even in the midst of race for more everybody would agree, there is always at least one point of higher importance for us \u2013 our health.
\nCircumstances were so, that recently I came in touch with Austrian health care in the role of patient.
\nMy health self-insurance in Austrian institution GKK was automatically canceled because of mistake one of the clerks in district social office made. After a lot of fuss between Social office and GKK, the first unwillingly produced sheet of yellow paper for temporary free medical help. The simple resolve of problem with insurance filled my heart with euphoria. I thought: \u201cAll these years were not in vain, I live in truly advanced social state and even can use free medical help!\u201d Soon it came the chance to try my new yellow paradise ticket.
\nAs all things in the world have fatal duality, so is the case with my sensitivity, which turns in everyday life in vulnerability and falls upon me in form of allergic reactions.
\nWhen I appeared in Allergy center with blocked nose and cheerfully produced yellow scrap of paper to receptionist, she looked puzzled. Then she offered me to pay for visit, or to find aid of other practitioner in two-weeks time. Why other doctor may solve problem which doctor of the center could not solve, was not clear for me.
\nI directed my slightly inhibited walk to physician, who was so nice to me one year ago during routine procedure of ear cleaning.
\nAgain I produced yellow paper with caught breath expecting to witness phenomenal focus-pocus of its hypnotic influence.
\nNurse retreated to doctor\u2019s room and after certain amount of time returned and handed paper back to me. She told paper didn\u2019t belong here, but I still could see doctor if I wanted.
\nI entered the watch room, which I remembered so well from my previous visit. Everything was the same. But demeanor of former kind doctor of medicine magically changed. She hardly paid a look at me, rearranging items at her table with air of peevish irritability.
\nThen she abruptly pointed me where to sit, and feeling myself bold and shameless beggar who expected to get medical advice free of charge, I crossed the room and clumsily landed myself in the chair, brushing against instrument box, which fell on the floor with terrible bang. Practitioner sprang to her feet and rushed forward and then back in state of uncontrollable fury. She kicked my bag, that I stupidly dropped directly in the center of passage.
\nI mumbled apologies together with complains, but they didn\u2019t reach the woman whose attention was switched off by overload.
\n\u201cWas wollen Sie von mir?\u201d- exclaimed she pathetically.
\nI could not reply, because now I wanted only one thing – never see her again.
\nShe handed me receipt for nose-spray and wished me good-buy.
\nI was leaving with feeling of loss. As if I lost friend.
\nPerhaps all focus-pocus was that value of my well-being dropped in exact ratio to my social status.
\nMedicine is also business. And as in any other business, heads of physicians, as heads of sun-flowers turn toward golden sun.
\nI forgot my scarf in reception and came back to fetch it. Passing the mirror I
\nswiftly observed reflection of confused woman with sheet of yellow paper clenched in the hand.<\/p>\n

*The Hippocratic Oath is an oath traditionally taken by physicians on ethical practice of medicine.
\nThe last postulate of Oath says:
\nI promise to keep the good of the patient as the highest priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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