Stories of Paraná - The protest esculópios

Stories of Paraná - The protest esculópios

The protest esculópios
Ayrton Ricardo dos Santos

The increase of the population, the increasing specialization, the systematic presence of desks in offices and ever higher cost of inputs in health, has contributed to the gap between doctors and patients. And also for the lesser of execrated certificates graceful.
In the absence of relevant and reasonable justifications for absence from work or school commitments provide, appealed to the cold certificates, which have proliferated in our society as a necessary evil.
To eliminate them altogether, even just seeking other mechanisms to meet their commitments, whatever the reason.
If declined in recent times, the use and abuse of practice is attested graceful old.
Outlined in the biography of Dr. Espinola, our late Hector Borges de Macedo chronicles episode happened about seventy years ago.

General Nepomuceno da Costa, at the time commander of Military Region 5 *, has determined that, to justify the absence of the soldiers were only accepted certificates signed by military doctors because the suspects would be gracious and provided by civilian professionals. The law provided that only absences for health reasons would be justified ...
Predictably, the medical profession felt wound his pride by the general suspicion.
Convened by its President, Professor Dr. João Cândido Ferreira Medical Association met in Curitibano Club.
On the proposal of Dr. Luis Medeiros fiery speech was drafted a manifesto of "protest and redress ..."
When his turn came to sign the document, Dr. Espinola stood up and calmly said:
- "I am in full agreement with colleagues.
I think its noble indignation, but I can not sign the manifesto because I have provided certificates graceful, meeting human contingencies ... "
Dr. Hector account that immediately after, Dr. Simon Kossobudski is accused of having done the same ... and also others that followed ...
So, sadly, thwarted the protest esculápios ...

Ayrton Ricardo dos Santos, MD

Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.