[HSF] Schizophrenia, Starvation vs Corruption

[Nasser F. Abou'Seada]

Dear Jacob 
You can be sure you don't enjoy that "Luxury" alone in this world of CTS. 

NFA 

> From: NielsB at aol.com
> Thanks for new and as always thoughtprovoking statements. All your points
are
> well taken and we definitely need good surgeons in two horse towns, our
HSF
> leader is a good example on how a lot of good things come out of
innovative
> people in two or may be even one or no horse towns.
> I do think however that we are as cardiac surgeons ( and maybe as doctors
in
> general) in the process of being "proletarized" and of course this
development
> has come much further in other parts of the world than in the US as far as
I
> can see.
> In Bosnia   a cardiac surgeon should be paid the same as   a family
> practitioner, but in reality worse since he is not really able to practice
in an office
> on the side. So either he starves or becomes corrupt.   That is the main
> reason we are now building a private institution in that country, where
people can
> be paid at least decently in a transparent way.
> This was maybe a digression, (think I am becoming schizophrenic too), but
the
> main point of course as I think is the whole purpose of the HSF
initiatives
> are in different ways   to get us as cardiac surgeons to get together to
be
> not only academic but innovative.
> And this is   truly a global effort; patients are there, money is around
and
> I really believe that cardiac surgeons whereever they are, are entitled to
> control a more significant part of available resources, not necessarily
for
> ourselves but for the effective   care of our patients and for development
of the
> field of "structural heart disease". Sorry if I started to sound like a
> preacherman,
> 
> Jacob