By Marcos Tadeu Machado
Working in Brazil's healthcare sector is one of the greatest professional challenges. This field is marked by constant difficulties and exhaustion, requiring professionals to stay committed to care, often without immediate recognition.
Given the current scenario where patients undergoing critical treatment have their contracts canceled, and suppliers, hospitals, and professionals face payment delays and fraud, the commitment to humane care must be reaffirmed.
For the healthcare system to function effectively and with dignity, all involved—managers, hospitals, professionals, healthcare providers, suppliers, and third parties—must assume their responsibilities and often forgo individual privileges or interests. Only through a collective and ethical effort can the distortions affecting the sector be overcome.
How can we ensure respect and transparency in a system where cost, productivity, and financial pressures often override the primary mission of caring? Institutions like the Instituto Ética Saúde (IES) play a fundamental role. By promoting ethical and mediating practices, the IES seeks to balance the interests of the healthcare chain, emphasizing that the patient must be the system's center, not just a cost variable.
This constant pressure must never compromise human care. Canceling treatments for critically ill patients or allowing fraud and false bills against healthcare providers are not just management failures; they are ethical breaches that undermine trust in the system.
True leadership in healthcare requires resisting pressures that prioritize profit at any cost and indifference that dehumanizes relationships. Caring means setting clear limits, acting with integrity, and seeking sustainable solutions that preserve the dignity of those who depend on the system.
Transforming Brazil's healthcare sector requires ethical collaboration from all stakeholders and a commitment to reversing practices that undermine trust and respect. Managers facing criticism of their leadership or decisions should reflect: are they contributing to a more humane and fair system, or merely reacting to financial pressures?
The safety of the healthcare system is a challenging but achievable path. It starts with a choice: prioritizing the patient and ethics in every decision.
Marcos Tadeu Machado is a member of the Board of Directors of Instituto Ética Saúde and one of its founders.
The opinion expressed is the author's responsibility and is not necessarily the opinion of IES.
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