I am a resident physician in clinical pharmacology and toxicology at University Hospital Center Split, Croatia. I am bound with slave ownership-contract to my employer. Such slave ownership-contracts do not exist in most of other EU member states. Resident physicians are also obliged to fill in the residency booklet and work diary, which are both extremely complicated (more than 1500 signatures and seals), and against which Croatian Medical Chamber also complained several times, in order to acquire the right to take the specialist exam. Both slave ownership-contracts and extremely complicated administrative obligations are the cause why so many doctors leave Croatian healthcare system and there is no political or legal initiative, except for the Croatian Medical Chamber, to change such legislative that potentially violates human rights of Croatian resident physicians. I wrote several times to Ministry of Health in order to obtain legally valid explanation of extremely complicated administrative obligations, and with a potential goal to ask for more transparent, more user-friendly, simpler administrative obligations, and preferably in an on-line form, but I received no answer (administrative silence). I also contacted several lawyers and even a Croatian Bar Association for legal aid, but I received little or no help at all.
SAY NO TO ALL KINDS OF SLAVERY!
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"Residencies are traditionally hospital-based, and in the middle of the twentieth century, residents would often live (or "reside") in hospital-supplied housing. "Call" (night duty in the hospital) was sometimes as frequent as every second or third night for up to three or more years. Pay was minimal beyond room, board, and laundry services."
from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine) Still in the 21 century, in almost all countries medical residency is a kind of slavery which is seen by national health authorities as necessary to be able to endure all kinds of hardships in the clinical life of a medical doctor ! Being a medical doctor primarily is a kind of self-sacrifice to other human beings ! Also in some countries there are also compulsory as an MD 2 & after residency additional 2 years of governmental assignments to remote areas where doctors are scarce !
These are indeed historical facts for some, I would say extremely primitive countries, but democratic and progressive societies, such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria etc. have more democratic legislative that regulates residency programs, and because of their progressive democratic values these countries have one of the best healthcare systems in the world. Slavery has always been a regressive, primitive and extremely cruel way of regulating the society.
Please compare Croatian per capita GDP & PPP with countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria etc ! Democracy & progressive society are always directly proportional to per capita GDP & PPP !
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