Día del Médico
En ese miserable pueblo minero la salud pública no existía, carecían de todo y rebosaban de enfermedades mientras que, ¡oh, paradoja!, la miel eran aquellos pocos cuya enfermedad era el exceso de utilidades. El canto de sirena de las pingües ganancias socavó la ética y solo la muerte de un paciente lo marcó de por vida y lo regresó a la ardua labor de curar y aliviar en ese pequeño pueblo de Gales. Es La Ciudadela, libro autobiográfico de A. J. Cronin que fue, al tiempo, motivo de la creación del Servicio Nacional de Salud del Reino Unido en 1948 y acicate para que algunos se convirtieran en médicos.
Día del Médico In a desolate mining town, public health was nonexistent, with widespread disease contrasting with the excessive profits of a few. The death of a patient profoundly impacted a doctor, leading them back to their work of healing in a small Welsh town. This experience, chronicled in A. J. Cronin’s autobiographical book ‘The Citadel,’ spurred the creation of the UK’s National Health Service in 1948 and encouraged others to pursue medicine.
- A mining town lacked public health services and suffered from widespread diseases.
- Excessive profits were the ‘illness’ of a select few, contrasting with the general suffering.
- The death of a patient deeply affected a doctor, prompting a return to healing work.
- A. J. Cronin’s autobiographical book, ‘The Citadel,’ documented these experiences.
- The book contributed to the establishment of the UK’s National Health Service in 1948.
- The book also inspired individuals to become doctors.
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