Medicine: The More Things Change
Medicine: The More Things Change
Author(s): Wojciech Kosc, Boyko Vassilev, Lucie Kavanova, Anita Komuves, Pavol Szalai, Sinziana DemianSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: emergency hospital; Bulgaria; the Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; 1989; doctors; Iron Curtain; practiced medicine;
Summary/Abstract: The fall of communism meant drastic changes in doctors’ relationships with patients, hospitals, and the state. And much more paperwork. [As we look at how life has changed – or stayed the same – over the past 20 years, TOL correspondents in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia asked people in various professions to describe their working life today compared with conditions before 1989. This collection of interviews with doctors is the third in the series that resulted.] See more special coverage of the anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain at our 20 Years After website.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 10/27
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
