Anna Gołębicka: More equal than others. The case of Jacek Kurski

In Warsaw, Jacek Kurski is testing for COVID-19, the test is positive. The Ministry of the Interior and Administration Hospital, after examining this positivity, states that it is no longer dangerous to the environment. The hospital applies for release from quarantine. Jacek Kurski is flying to Eurovision. The case comes to light. The hospital publishes a statement on the situation on the government website. Patients and their families all over Poland expect the same procedure to be applied to them in order not to stay in quarantine or follow the "non-covid" treatment path. What's more, many doctors would also gladly apply it for them - if only it was officially described and approved somewhere, but the procedure turns out to be a fern flower, the Holy Grail, Noah's Ark, and maybe even a Yeti. Everyone has heard of it, but it cannot be found and I will say more - no one has seen it.

And here funny ends and terrible begins. What is a doctor to do with a stroke patient who does not have COVID symptoms but has a positive test result and has to go to a COVID ward, where he usually has weaker possibilities of diagnosing the causes of stroke and early rehabilitation than a patient who follows the standard regimen? What is a man in a white coat supposed to do with a patient who comes to the HED with a fracture requiring surgical treatment, when he is positive, the patient has no symptoms of infection and says that he felt worse, but that was about two weeks ago, and in the hospital no has a covid block? And what was the doctor in charge of Joanna's dad, who was hospitalized after fainting and it turned out that he needed urgent bypasses, and the fate bonus was ... COVID plus. The hospital which he came to did not do this procedure. The hospital that performed it for COVID patients did not take the patient (it should be added that these hospitals are not made of rubber). Doctors in covid cardiology did their best, but the patient did not live to see Christmas, he did not manage to buy books as gifts at the history book fair. Maybe the approach to the subject as in Jacek Kurski's case would not change anything, but the question is always left behind. What if… Because the path for people suffering from diseases other than COVID but COVID is much more difficult.

This is the richest caliber of examples, but we also have loads of patients who have the infection gently at home in isolation. Exactly. Are they passing? Or maybe they have passed and do not have to be condemned to four walls in which their mental health is not improving? Wouldn't such a procedure - "Yeti" help? For ordinary grays, a positive result is a positive result. Dot. You fall on a completely different track. And the truth is that everyone has their own "Eurovision" and would like to be there. Like everyone else, he has his own life and would not want to be infected by a possibly hastily released from quarantine.

Every action causes a reaction, even if it seems invisible and insignificant, and most importantly, you would like medical procedures to be based on evidence and equal principles, not agreements.

Mr. Kurski waved the wings of the plane flying to Eurovision, and hundreds of Poles were asking questions about the "Yeti" procedure. So how is it with this path of Mr. President? Where is officially approved and explained "Yeti". Will we find them, or what is allowed to the voivode ... Because it is probably not the case that in our country one gentleman simply deserved it.

Anna Gołębicka - economist, communication and management expert. Author of many ideas and product strategies. Board advisor. She managed the marketing and development of CANAL + Cyfrowy thematic channels, previously associated with TVN. In the medical industry, cooperates, among others with OZZL, the Agreement of OZZL Residents, the Independent Team of Experts of the Continue Curatio. Initiator of the campaign "I am a doctor, I am a human" OIL Warsaw. Expert of the Center Adam Smith. Publicist.