Coronakrisen means not only livstruede patients and a sudden pressure on the hospitals.
in the Midst of the bustle, there is also reason to rejoice that the crisis triggers of good energy and new, efficient ways to work together for the doctors, nurses and other staff in the health care system.
The experience has the 60-year-old chief physician Morten Sodemann from the university Hospital of Odense.
“Health care has never worked so smoothly as now. In fact, it has been superbehageligt to go to work the last few weeks, because there has been unleashed a new and efficient energy, all pulling in the same direction, and no one says no. It has been very thought-provoking,” he says to the B. T.
Usually, Morten Sodemann as professor in global health and indvandrermedicin at the hospital, but under the coronakrisen he is to command one of the four sections coronapatienter in Odense.
“It has been a really good experience to notice that there are doctors and nurses enough – and also the time that we can provide a holistic treatment of patients.”
“If a patient suffers from several diseases at the same time, we are in the crisis together so many specialists right next to each other, that it is not necessary to wait for a new speclallæge in, for example, kidney disease or arthritis can be present and have time to make his own undersøgelsesforløb of patients,” explains the chief physician.
“It is a really sensible and efficient way to go about it. And many of my colleagues have also said that we must take the current experience with us and think little of them, when coronakrisen is over.”
“At the moment we do not hold scores of meetings with endless rows of different agendas. We are all focused on all of the time to find forms of cooperation that works. So we will be resilient in the face of the unexpected.”
“The skilful are those who are good to find when there is not an obvious solution to a problem. Those who know who I need to call on the x-ray or surgery, when it should just glide well, and you can avoid, that too many come on the intensive care or become infected,” adds Morten Sodemann.
He hopes that the current teamånd and turbomåde to work on will enable the traces in the longer term.
“It has been thought-provoking that no one goes into a panic. There has been lots of opportunities to be scared – also as a professional – when you have seen the tv pictures from Italy. But the staff at the hospitals have responded astonishingly quiet and has shown a high degree of team spirit. It has triggered a lot of resources are being utilized in the right way,” says the chief physician.
“A forskningssygeplejerske from my indvandrermedicinske team has started to systematically talking with patients about how they experience the course. It should of course really be a huge management project to find out why it works so well. Also sundhedsøkonomerne could give themselves to study it instead of sitting and figuring out how many die. But I have not yet heard of an actual study,” he says.
“I would also hope that the experience gets stuck in the political layer. But it is difficult to have a good collective memory, when regionspolitikere continuous change,” adds Morten Sodemann.
