Today I had my first surgery in a long while since the COVID-19 pandemic. I've focused on administrative work for the longest time, managing the COVID-19 Health Facility and making innovative changes in the hospital to try and cope with all the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic response and to improve the health system to ensure we provide quality service for anybody who needs it. After all, the goal of universal health care is that "nobody is left behind". Even the battlecry of our DOH7 Center for Health Development Healthcare Provider Network is that "the right patient at the right facility at the right time all the time..." I've quite forgotten about my private practice and my clinical work.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us to set our priorities, pointing to us what is essential to our lives. We learn to go back to basics and to do away with frivolities, the wants and the extras in life. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare all the weakness in our health system. It also provided us with an opportunity to make improvements and reforms.
There will come a point in time when things don't seem to work even if you've tried as hard as you could. Trying out a new process flow, but the outputs just don't meet expectations. We need to learn to accept that this innovative intervention simply isn't working for us. We need to put our foot down, cut our losses and say "enough is enough".
How do you know when to say "enough is enough"?
What do you look forward to in the next 5 years?
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