Illness is information about what kind of person is, how and under what conditions. In order to heal, he has to understand the information correctly and change his behavior, says MUDr. Jan Hnízdil. "Some of my patients are also grateful for having received cancer," one of them says
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It looks like my hair. They are so! I have a young patient who has lived a very stressful lifestyle for several years. He told me in the office, "Doctor, I knew I was going for the cancer." He understood it as a chance, he made the turn of life. He left the advertising company and began to live a new life. The ten times less stressful and ordinary optician of today's society is ten times less successful.

And he said to me: "I thank the cancer. She opened my eyes. "And if we are talking today that we are on the verge of a major economic crisis, it is such a social cancer. We will either understand it as a chance, we will turn and pray that we may heal. Like my patient. Or we will not understand it and we will miss this chance.

I feel like you are looking forward to the economic crisis.
But I'm really looking forward to it! I am frightened by every report that it has managed to re-start the economy. It is as if they were telling us: "After a temporary dulling, we were able to sharpen the saw so that we could cut the branch for a while longer." For God's sake, it is not! No more exponential growth. The only chance is to stop, think and change the way of life.

You can not really think that.
Of course, I'm afraid of the crisis. Like every human. Nobody cares when they get cancer. I do not know what awaits us. But I see the big chance. Either the turn will be conscious and humble, or unconscious, spontaneous and violent. Few people realize how hard we are in a fragile world. That is enough. Take a look when electricity is not going for somewhere in town. Or just do not export garbage. Suddenly you will find out how little is enough for civilization to fall apart and the values ​​collapse.

Okay, you made a diagnosis. So try to suggest treatment.
Disease is information for a patient that makes a mistake in her life. And so is the social crisis of information that we are doing the mistake together. You need to understand that information. In medicine, this has made great progress in recent years. When I was at the clinic seven years ago, the patients followed me: "Doctor, I'm sick, give me pills." Today it's the opposite. "Doctor, I do not want to take the pills anymore. Explain to me why I'm sick. What can I do to heal myself? "

Illness is not a call to swallow pills and the economic crisis is not about needing more money. This is a suppression of symptoms, but not a solution to the essence of the problem. The solution is to change attitudes towards life and change behavior.

Illness is the recommended letter. And cancer is a recommended letter with a black stripe. It is written in it: You have poisoned the air and now you breathe it. You polluted the water and now you drink it. You have destroyed interpersonal relationships and now you have to live in them. Now, for God's sake, stop, or you end up here. So it is also necessary to understand the social crisis.

You speak a lot politically. Do you want to enter politics?
Last year, a Member of Parliament came to see me if I did not want to become his health adviser. That my opinions were taken by him, and that we could promote them together. And he immediately asked me what to advise him. I said to him, "Get yourself semtex, stand up, and start firing at the first meeting." The political system in the country is so corrupt that it can not be reformed at all. I definitely do not intend to enter it.

You quit the question. I did not ask if you wanted to do a counselor but if you did not have the ambition to be a politician myself. From some of the answers I have that feeling.
So the feeling is bad. I have now got the offer to run for the autumn Senate elections. I do not think I'm normal, but maybe not a complete asshole. Going into politics in its present form is nonsense. I believe a lot in the citizens' initiatives, which have started to grow in the last few years as mushrooms after the rain. And I believe that everyone has to make a turn first in himself, in his life, in the profession. My policy is to influence the people around me.

Do you mean your patients?
Besides. But I'm still driving a lot in the Czech Republic and trying to explain to people what complex medicine is. The response is fantastic. I'm called by people who, thanks to complex medicine, have figured out why they're going to be stoned. They say, "We stopped by the doctors, we dropped the cholesterol drugs ... and we're fine!"

So you would not like to be the Health Minister?
He is now sixteen, and like all his predecessors are talking about healthcare reform. But health is just the form that medicine is dispatched to. The problem is in content. We've talked about it a few times. Lots of examinations and medications are totally unnecessary. It is necessary to do the opposite. Comprehensive medicine helps people explain how their lifestyle is related to health. Supplements, fees, insurance ... this is just superstructure.

When the content does not change, the form is useless. Health care reform is at the same time as vain as trying to make a new coat of corpse. You can modify it and improve it, but the body still smells more. I do not think all the former ministers were stupid. Even though there were enough. But there were those who were not stupid, and they did not do anything. Simply because it is not possible.

Nor was David Rath stupid. Have you watched his case?
You know that I'm not indifferent to my arresting colleagues and classmates. (There is a laugh.) Some of them are in grip, like Rath and Bartak, and others are just knocking. And I think they'll end up in those kills either, or at least they should. I mean Ouzka and Cabrnoch, who are behind the billion-dollar trick on behalf of IZIP.

Were you surprised by the fall of David Rath?
He was not surprised. I just did not expect to be so fast and deep. Several times we met in public debates in the media. We were on the radio in a talk about corruption, where I harshly condemned how the pharmaceutical industry corrupts a doctor. Perhaps by buying them at congresses in exotic countries. He strongly opposed it, refusing to call it corruption and arguing that it was a common "phenomenon".

David Rath has excelled in his entire career with unreality, arrogance and ruthlessness. Typical "hybris syndrome", as described by the neurologist and former British Foreign Minister David Owen in the book The Sick in Power. "Hybris syndrome" is, in a nutshell, a political controversy. It manifests itself in faith in its own exceptionalness and loss of judgment. In ancient Greece, "hybris" referred to the behavior of a mortal who does not know peace. But the punishment of the goddess of Nemesis will always come to an end. Which also happened to David Rath.

You like to diagnose policies. Years ago, you were famous for wanting to get rid of Václav Klaus's authority.
We then and colleagues in a closed circle discussed whether his unusual behavior had any medical reasons. Part of the discussion penetrated by e-mails out, and Adam Bartos wrote an article about it, which also imprinted on Reflex. The main thesis was seemingly shocking: "They want to get the president into a madman." But we just named what the sparrows on the roof today are.

Bartos then filed a criminal complaint against me for suspicion of attempted treason at the preparatory stage. Based on this, the criminal police summoned me to explain. They told me, "Tell us how you wanted to get the president into a madman." And I told them that I would love to know too. Whoever tells me finally how to do it. We did not come to anything.

Throughout the conversation, I wonder if you are more skeptical or hopeful than you.
Will you help me find out? I will respond differently. Last year I had an amazing experience. I was out in the Šárka valley dog. I sat on the bench and read Lidove noviny. A strange lady came to me, about forty-five. He tells me: "Do not be angry, I have a terrible depression and a crisis, could not you hug me for a moment?" And we, two adults, embraced for a few minutes. Then she said, "Thank you, it helped me a lot," and I've never seen her before. Now tell me, is it in skepticism or hope?

MUDr. Jan Hnízdil, internist and rehabilitation physician
Source: Reflex, Astrolife