Why more and more hospitals are being converted into psychosomatic clinics
The cries about the nursing emergency are getting louder and louder, everyone wants a piece of the pie of the lack of nurses and doctors. What used to be an infrastructure can no longer even be called an in, let alone a structure.
In the last third of the 20th century, specialist practices were set up around hospitals, pharmacies opened around the doctors' practices so that the pharmaceutical industry could not miss out on a single cent of the prescriptions issued (at that time, of course, still pennies and pennies). Today it is different. The flow of patients is diverted. Of course, it still goes to the pharmacies for the aforementioned reason, but the route does not lead via the hospitals, but directly to the doctors in the surgeries.
The joy about this is correspondingly great, while the general practitioners, primarily internists, cannot save themselves not only from patients but also competitors and successors in basic medical care, it follows from the intelligent redistribution of burdens that the billing procedure also accommodates them more and more.
In order to ensure that the people in the countryside receive exactly the care they are entitled to, in addition to the dismantling and neglected maintenance/setting of public transport routes such as railways and roads, the sale of hospitals and care facilities is being pushed ahead. What goes unnoticed in some places, especially among patients with dementia who receive few visitors, triggers a storm of indignation among the group of people who have the least to do with it: the doctors and nursing staff.
Trained and competent staff are flooding the market, so people are looking at maps of where too many facilities are located in sparsely populated areas.
It is roughly comparable to the fifth Berlin airport.
In order to give people in the countryside an incentive to move to the cities, where there is currently one ear, nose and throat specialist and two opticians for every 10,527 inhabitants, and one general practitioner for every 514 opticians, hospitals in unattractive locations are sold off to the lowest bidder. These are usually companies backed by the pharmaceutical industry to provide proof of the banned animal testing of medicines.
Every visitor and patient, whether inpatient or outpatient, is required to take at least seven preparations in the early stages of testing when they enter the building they thought was a hospital; the preference, because 'iv' sounds so disgusting and is far too elaborate (who wants to run through the corridors with an IV tube), is oral administration in prepared cakes and coffee substitute drinks, which everyone there eventually ingests.
Analyses have shown that especially in rural areas fewer and fewer people go to the doctor. Of course, this must be because people are getting sick less and not because the last doctor in their area retired some time ago at the age of 75 and now gets Hartz4 because he trusted the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians with his accounts and his case worker bought himself an island in the Caribbean. Since the distances to the next larger town are not to be overcome, people stay at home or seek out the buildings that used to be hospitals - and see the previous paragraph, so the circle closes and we finally know why there are no more hospitals.