Today I got my best NTY mini time of 57 seconds. I had breakfast and coffee this morning with adding cinnamon in it. I will do that again tomorrow. Great change of pace. We headed to University of Austral and got a lecture and a tour of the private hospital. We spoke with the head doctor that is chief of safety of the hospital. I will say he has a very different approach to healthcare. He was talking about how he wants to raise healthcare cost to get less wealthy people out so they could keep wait times way lower. When we went to Swiss Medical the focus was care getting people the healthiest as quick as they can. The approach here was the lessen the people in the facility to ensure quality. Lessening the people was done by making it more and more expensive to make sure less people can go. Another thing that was different about the two hospital systems was that Australs biggest contributor to their money was the Obras of executives, while swiss medical relayed pretty heavily on their swiss medical insurance and that was their number one contributor of money. So the way that each of the systems are getting funded are a little different percentage wise.
There are similarities between Swiss Medical and Austral. Both are HMOs, so they are a hospital and an insurance plan, so they are a one stop shop of care. This can also lead to problems by making it like a monopoly in the sense of people are just being ran by this one massive corporation. The facilities themselves were super similar in how they were state of the art. All of them were super clean and well managed. The staff was always super kind and answered any questions we had.
Later on we looked at a hospice care center and met with the head doctor of that and it was wonderful. The place was super nice and the staff was absolutely amazing. Everyone there new that people that were coming in were near the end of their life, so there only goal was to make their last days so special. The doctor was so respectful of the residents there and spoke so calmly about working in hospice.
The best part of the day was lunch. We got some empanadas and chatted with Austral students. We had to work on a problem solving scenario within healthcare. Our problem was related to Americans trusting vaccines. I really loved the girls I ended up meeting. Maria and I got their numbers and made a group chat. We are planning on hanging out with them on Thursday. Then after we headed back home.