The double bind of Spanish Primary Health Care

We've all seen a spider web once and we know what happens when an insect falls into it.  We have witnessed its fear and its tempest of movements that have entangled him even more, clearly warning the owner of the trap that will come quickly to collect her piece.

Spanish Primary Health Care has been suffering from a double bind problem for decades. On the one hand, it is said that the national health system is one of the best in the world, that our health centres are state-of-the-art and that we have wonderful professionals. On the other hand, we face a terrible panorama of reduced resources, increased healthcare pressure and greater complexity of cases due to adverse economic and social conditions and the ageing of the population.
The result is an uncomfortable blockade of health professionals vertebrate by a deep sense of discomfort and a storm of coffee break complaints that despite their insistence do not produce the slightest change. The most that managers seem to arrive at is to design changes of all kinds that do not incur in expenditure but that do not seem to significantly improve the model either. This generates a schizophrenic situation that produces suffering in those who suffer it.

It doesn't matter if people die waiting in the emergency room, if the director of a health centre resigns or if some family doctors resign their posts. Since the exception does not move mill we continue as we are, entangled in...