The wrong treatment

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