Happy Podcast: Exodus of Doctors for Better. Not only to the west, but also to Slovakia – News List

The Happy Podcast composed by Jindřich Šídlo, Tereza Povolná, Ondřej Lasák and special guest Martin Čaban will tell you what the problem of the Czech health care system is and whether it is time to cancel Velka Pardubická.

When an amendment to the labor code was passed a few weeks ago, which allowed doctors to work twice as much overtime than before, thousands of them announced that they would rather quit under such conditions. This caused quite a surprised reaction among politicians, when, for example, the proposer of the mentioned amendment, Vít Kaňkovský, declared that they “didn’t estimate the atmosphere in the healthcare sector”.

“As a patient, I have the experience that Czechs are used to the fact that our healthcare is of high quality, very accessible and still costs nothing. But if I say or write this in praise somewhere, x doctors will say that it’s fine, but that all this is only at the price of their absolute exhaustion,” notes Jindřich Šídlo.

The question is, however, why do we have to switch our doctors so much when – as our guest today, Seznam Zpráv commentator and healthcare expert Martin Čaban says – we have a higher number of doctors per population than the EU average.

“The problem is with the organization of work in hospitals – doctors do a lot of it because their work is relatively cheap. If you have someone who makes three hundred an hour, you don’t mind if they fill out the paperwork. If that someone worked for a thousand, then the management of the hospital would finally have the motivation to get someone directly to do the paperwork,” notes Čaban.

So how to improve the status of doctors? Is it even possible? And how does David Rath fit into all this? That’s what the first part of the Happy Podcast will tell you.

In the second part, as usual, we focus on responses to current events. And so today we tackled a topic that caused a great response on social networks – Great Pardubice. And together with the famous race of a politician who became perhaps a somewhat unexpected ally of animals.

“Miroslav Kalousek, in his new role as horse protector, has clearly defined himself against Taxis,” describes Tereza Povolná, citing a tweet where the politician is outraged by the “reprehensible abuse” of horses:

And what about Jindřich Šídlo? “Great Pardubice is really a massacre. But of course there would be one way to cancel the whole thing, which has been tested in the Czech Republic and works absolutely. All you have to do is cancel the subsidies for all breeding farms and racetracks – and that’s it. It’s just that no government would dare to do that,” he shrugs. And, of course, in the second part, he will add a few more stories and memories of racing in the 90s.

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