Yeah but the one you end up at is an hour away.
German government is trying to change that for us at the moment, so I‘ll hold back my cheers for now.
For context: It isn’t, and the underlying misunderstanding is fostered by the reporting on what is going on.
The proposed changes are about to what extent all hospitals have to offer treatment types. There’s basics that all hospitals have to offer either way, but for some treatments you want highly specialized departments, both in expertise and in equipment. The underlying issue is basically:
Is it better to have a mediocre [something]ology department in every hamlet, with corresponding constraints on quality of care (as well as higher infrastructural redundancies) or is it better to have better equipped specialized centers that have to cover a larger area (with the corresponding issues of having to transport patients across relatively larger distances)?
It’s complicated with genuinely important trade-offs to consider, but the minister whose face is associated with it also became a target of right wing weirdoes and newspapers over corona stuff and the cannabis “legalization”.
Are you implying more house doctors will make up for it because the opposite is the case for rural areas.
No, that is not what I wrote.
