challenges

My discipline is physical therapy, and I think there’s a lot of challenges in this career, I mean that in general people don’t know very well what a physical therapist really does, and that I think is because the public health system hasn’t integrated us in the right way.

About technology, I’m not sure what to think, because like a romantic way, It’s beautiful the treatment when it is all just done with our hands. But obviously the contributions of technology in diagnosis and in the effects and speed of treatments are questionless. Now, about the unequal distribution of the technology devices in the different hospitals or between hospitals and private clinics, I have to say that it’s very unfair, the high quality treatments must be able to every single person as a right, the right of a good life quality, and that don’t have any price.

When I think about the way that this university is training us for been physical therapist, I see that they are responding to the expectations that the society have about the University of Chile. But there’s a lot of universities that teach physical therapy, even without the complete accreditation, so In that way I think it’s an irresponsible attitude, added to this, some universities based they interest just in money, and not in what really matters, “the society compromise” that they assume giving a health science career, and that needs a solid ethic base that I think some privates universities doesn’t have.

I think the solution of the challenges about technology, education, and the Chilean health system, is to make all of this systems free, and with free access to people. But this is not enough, we need to improve the quality in technology, for example and level all the health places with the highest available technology that exist. After that, it’s necessary to make sure that the physical therapist that are working are the best and that is made with a huge improvement of the educational system.

As a conclusion I must say that now with the careless governments we are all paying the price of their failures.