The concept of “advance appointment” is one of humanity’s greatest inventions, except when going to the emergency room is essential.
– I’ll bring my dying father.
– Did you make an appointment?
I’m not saying they do, but I suspect the idea has already settled in some privileged heads of our battered universal health service. Let’s say you have tonsillitis and you want an appointment from your clinic and they make an appointment for you next week. This happens. Assigning you to next week for a little sore throat is the same as sending you to fry asparagus. In short, there are people on the waiting list for pathologies that need urgent treatment, but now that the world is full of normalizers, we are used to it. A normalizer is a pro who makes the irrational logical. If your child has diarrhea, it makes sense to take it today, not in a month. Diarrhea cannot be treated retrospectively. But if something is repeated and repeated, you get used to it.
-What happens to the child?
– He had diarrhea about four weeks ago.
-And is he okay now?
Yes, but we still want you to remove it.
The dialogue is exaggerated, if not more so than what we witnessed in parliamentary sessions on Wednesdays.
The absurd ceases to be perceived when you firmly settle on it. This is why it is said that fish do not perceive water because they are surrounded by water and cannot perceive the atmosphere for the same reason. Prior appointments for hospital emergencies will be meaningless until institutionalized. For this, there are “institutionalizers” working in forced marches to realize this rationalizing conquest as soon as possible. People still come to referral hospitals with angina without calling, but after spending twelve or thirteen hours in a corridor they realize their mistake and either die or go home and obediently ask for an appointment over the phone as God intended.