The wrong treatment

The article Wrong prescription can kill the unitary state on May 28 of The Jakarta Post sounds like a disagreement between medical professionals.

It is quite common for a doctor to have a different opinion about the treatment of a patient by a fellow professional, especially when the former has no high regard of the intelligence of the latter.

But rationally speaking, different opinions do not always reflect a difference in intelligence, although many people may think so.

Many laymen think that there is a big difference between giving antibiotics and surgery, but these are actually two sides of the same coin -- the goal of both is to cure. When antibiotics don't help, surgery is a necessity. Of course, some doctors will continue prescribing antibiotics and even jamu, or traditional herbal medicines, without end until the patient is incurable.

The war has already begun, the patient is already on the operating table. It is now more dangerous to stop the surgery than to let it proceed.

Just follow the events intensely. If something goes wrong, the writer will be useful in giving advice, but if the patient recovers, I expect him to be a gentleman and admit that he was wrong in his judgment.

SUMARSONO SASTROWARDOYO, Tangerang, Banten