Just as it happened with the spanish king Felipe IV called the dumbfounded king, history repeats inside the skin of many institutions that seem be stuned. Although apparently our health system seems to be in good health, the evidence indicates that it suffers from various and deleterious evils. We can consider a management cancer that consumes countless resources, a hormonal insufficiency of leadership and a cognitive impairement produced by the overload of its professionals, the obsolescence and stupidity of the computer programs they use and the excess of prevailing bureaucracy, among other causes.

The patients are witnesses of the jamming of their professionals who increasingly look them less centered as they are on the screens of their computers to meet the uncountless demand for data that their managers force them to fill. 
This situation worsens the overdose of diagnostic tests and various treatments that society receives, in adittion to patients increasing their own sense of discomfort and doctors being increasingly offside. It is much simpler to put a pill on than to take it off, to send an unnecessary test than to explain why it is not indicated.

The Communication and Health congress (sponsored by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine) took place recently, where the tenacity of the 450 attendees navigating against the tide should be highlighted: betting on better communication inside and outside the consultation, trying to develop more emp...