After general practitioners and paediatricians, ophthalmologists could soon become scarce. Top doctors Dr. Bonni Syeda and Dr. Gabriela Seher in an interview about outdated medicine, hospital misery and borderline cases.
Crown: The call for help from the hospitals continues. We regularly receive threat reports. Stations are merged or closed. The medical staff is at the limit. How can ophthalmology help with this?
Dr. Bonnie Syeda: The established area needs to be upgraded. To this end, for example, services that are currently only provided in hospitals should also be offered by general practitioners. But our service catalog is quite outdated, sometimes 20 to 25 years. This applies to many disciplines. Also ophthalmology.
Dr. Gabriela Seher: We were able to relieve the hospitals quickly. For example, in intravitreal surgical drug application (IVOM). For this it is necessary to make an injection directly into the eye at regular intervals. This happens about 50,000 times a year in Vienna alone. In Austria, this is only possible for patients with hospital health insurance. This is a burden for the elderly patients, who sometimes have to resort to ambulance transport or ambulances.
Source: Krone
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