EL COMPLEJO DE EDIPO DEL SALUBRISTA MEDICO O EL ORGULLO DE SER SALUBRISTA
Abstract
Many medical Salubrists have an unresolved Oedipus complex in relation to their mother profession, Medicine. They love it too much, not daring to leave it to embrace its legitimate wife, public health. That it is the offspring of Medicine, it is true, but it is different.
As long as the Salubrist Physician does not get rid of this “Oedipus complex”, he will not be able to be fully satisfied with his new profession, which is not Medicine but Public Health. What is the difference between Medicine and Public Health? The former is a profession that treats sick individuals, either to cure them or to prevent disease. The second attends to sick communities, to cure them also, or to prevent their illnesses, in the form of Sanitary Administration or in the form of Epidemiology.
If their aims are the same, their procedures, programs, methods and goals, their approach in general, are fundamentally different.
One is an individual and individualistic profession. The other is communal or collective. The one uses the stethoscope, the blood pressure cuff, the bed; the other uses statistics, charts, papers, the desk, travel, surveys, visits to communities.
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