¿Es no ética la práctica de la medicina privada?
¿Is private practice of medicine unethical? John Dean wrote in a Personal view in BMJ (1) that the priveta practice of medicine is unethical and that doctors shoul leave. I have worked in public national medicine for 39 years and 31 years en public and private medicine, and I disagreement with these views (and now, April 2025, I am still working alone in private medicine). In Spain, in the 1980s exclusive dedication to public hospitals was introduced. Doctors who welcomed it, with the same working , had better pay. The fundamental reason that was exposed by the then health minister was that doctors under exclusive contracts consecrate their free time in the afternoon to study the problems of their patients, however, thos working in private medicine in the afternoon could not. This neves happened. Most doctors who were exclusively dedicated , then and now, for the evening were dedicated to their hobbies and favourite sports, to be with their family or out walking. The o...