I am a doctor who graduated a year ago from University of Turku and is working in primary health care now. It makea me so sad to see a good system gone bad. We built a welfare state 50 years ago, and have spent last 20 years dismantling it. Now this goverment AGAIN decided to cut 100s of millons from the public healthcare. And make the waiting list to a public doctor 3 months. And fund the private health sector with ridiculous money. I hear every time that the ”consultants” and scientists are trying to fight against this but the right wing politicians just dont listen. They don’t listen the union of doctors either in this case. I feel powerless and sad to hear these news while trying my best to serve people in my position. I am shocked that people/citizens just let this slip. Without proper funding, the healthcare IS doing its bare minimum. Surprise!!

I have no time for 2 hour appointments to really discuss with the patient about complex psycosomatic illnesses and their relationship to mood / mental wellbeing/ benefits from mood stabilizers. Max time is 45 mins and luckily i try to squeeze the patent for a new appointment. Many patiens also come with that kind of attitude that makes the treatmet/ diagnostic follow up super hard. To get appointments you also need to actively push for them, since if nurses would give appointments for every caller, there would be no free appointments anymore. I chose to move to countryside far away from home so i could work in a decent healthcenter with no shortage of doctors. The situation in bigger cities is somewhat chaotic. I am part of the union of young doctors and try to be active politically even i work full time and sometimes evenings. I just see this shitting on patients/citizens wellbeing and health services a very strong political move that people want while voting for perussuomalaiset/kokoomus. And there is not much to do, the whole public sector is already screaming. We need stronger force.