Should your hospital die?

About this episode

The episode discusses the need for countries to rethink hospital usage and explore more effective forms of health care.

Let's talk about how advances in medicine and squeezed budgets are forcing countries to rethink health care.  For most of us, hospitals conjure up some very specific images: nurses and doctors running around, fancy machinery beeping away, somebody yelling “STAT!” While hospitals are chaotic places, they are also strangely reassuring. No matter how you are injured or what strange illness you’ve contracted, going to the nearby hospital can make you better. But maybe you don’t need a hospital after all. Did you know: ·        Hospitals are an extremely expensive way to treat people ·        Technology has made many surgeries less invasive, so that we don’t need to spend as much time in a hospital bed ·        Patients in hospitals are often overtreated or required to stay longer than necessary ·        Germany has a higher number of hospital beds than Spain, but the Spanish system is one of the world’s best ·        People with chronic health issues are best treated outside of a…

People in this episode

Host: Tunde Szabo

Guest: Dana Burduja

Topics covered

• health care
• hospitals
• medical technology
• budgeting
• patient care

Keywords

• hospitals
• health care
• medical advances
• patient treatment
• budget cuts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: European Investment Bank

Places: Germany, Spain

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