Even just two years ago, Elena worked as a family doctorHis profession since he was 14 years old. However, the young woman could not bear the pressure of eternal shifts and work weeks exceeding 60 hours, and thus her dream of devoting herself to medicine completely was shattered.
Faced with this, Elena made a radical decision: to give up the profession and devote herself to ceramics: “Imagine what this would mean for me and my environment. But I needed Prioritizing my mental and physical health Above medicine.”
This Tuesday, General mirror Its research focused on this issue, and as the morning article pointed out, the report of the Collective Medical Organization, in which the opinions of 1,400 young doctors were polled, states that two-thirds of them suffer from insomnia and the other half from exhaustion. In addition, the program was able to speak with Domingo Sanchez, a 33-year-old oncologist: “They get an average 60 hours per week. This report warns of what may happen. It’s mental health issues.” Regarding salary, Domingo noted: “It depends on each independent community, but they Just over 2000 euros With a basic salary of 1,200 euros.
For her part, Elena explained how she had to give up her dream profession: “When I decided that I did not want to practice medicine, I felt… So much guilt and so much shame. For me and my environment, it was very difficult to understand.” In the same way, the young woman recalled dedication during the pandemic, when she was a fourth-year resident: “You had to put in long hours and no one complained because you had to be where you had to be; But then the situation had to change. They need time to be refreshed, to be stimulated. The system does not allow this.”
Finally, Elena defended the Spanish public health system, although she highlighted that there was still a lot to do: “We have more and more pressures on healthcare, society is changing and increasingly demanding, and for this reason, more resources and Giving a touch to the working condition that doctors have“.