There is strength in unity

In a good team, people are different. Some are faster but less accurate, others slower but more careful. Some are more creative and others have a more strict mind. Each person's talents and predispositions are used to extract what is unique about him and create the best composition. Like in the theater. Someone is playing the king, someone is playing the squire, someone is playing the page. You can get an OSCAR for every role.

A team in which the players do not like each other, they compete with each other, they try to prove to themselves who is important, who the most important is getting nowhere. Everyone has to be at home in the team. The idea is for people to be proud of their role and try to do their best while others appreciate and understand it. Once, I talked to an experienced shipbuilder from Gdańsk, who talked about why they managed to change the world in 1980. Why didn't they bend, withstand the pressure. The old gentleman said, "Because we were building a ship." Ship? - I was surprised. Yes, a ship. Do you know how a ship is built? There everything weighs tons, there a screw that has not been tightened by one man can kill another. There, even a minor breach carries a real danger to others. We built a ship and learned to trust each other. " Mr. Shipyard worker in every word and gesture emphasized the uniqueness of what he did. After many years, he was still proud of working together and jointly responsible for the effect. Proud of his role in building the ship. And it was not easy either. The work is difficult, dirty, responsible and still not well paid. Any analogy?

People working in health care build more than a ship every day. They build human life, health. Malicious will say that this is about the patient's life, not a teammate's life, but - as we know - it is a tradition in this area that you can stick to everything.

Only with us there is a feeling that a "ship" is being built in very few places.

Of course, at the beginning of the professional pyramid of needs there is a salary, especially at the beginning of the professional path, but when there is no team, even money will be of little use in the long run. At work, apart from money (in which proportions depends on a specific person), it is also about trust, sense of security, belonging to a group, recognition or self-fulfillment.

Everyone is important. Baker, driver, cleaner, shop assistant, marketer.

And in the hospital there is a HED doctor, a doctor from the ICU, a doctor from the ward, doctor med., prof., resident, nurse, paramedic, orderly, diagnostician, radiology technician, pharmacist, physiotherapist, ambulance driver (gender randomly selected for the profession). These are the unbreakable links in the chain at the end of which there is success in healing the patient and learning from failure.

It is not mentioned very often, but in national health care, low salary seems to be only part of the problem, although this cry is easiest to formulate. Apart from money, there is also a lack of mutual respect, openness, understanding of the importance of everyone in the team, and cooperation. One for all, all for one. A team that is divided makes more mistakes, does not develop, does not learn, burns out quickly. The changes in organizational cultures cannot be included in the regulation (maybe fortunately, because if it were to sound like it was about visits by GPs to COVID 60+ patients, then better not). It cannot be introduced with one click, but if you do not start this process today, it will only get worse tomorrow and no money in the world will convince you to work in this industry for many years and quality. Treatment is teamwork. A good team can win every game, including the one for themselves.