Agony' is Pawe\u0142 Kapusta's reportage nominated for the Ryszard Kapu\u015bci\u0144ski Prize. On the pages of the book, the author follows scandalous procedures and absurdities that make life difficult for patients and doctors alike. Many of them pose a real, direct threat to human life. Forced by the system to constantly dodge the hurdles thrown at them, the permanently overworked doctors flee to the West or burn out professionally. Kapusta's reports provide a glimpse into the everyday life of medical staff. They also shed light on the system's black holes, which can cost both health and lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2240.00 PLN (two thousand two hundred and forty zloty, zero cents). This is the payout for more than 80 interventions in a month, including trips to four serious car accidents, five resuscitations and four people's own deaths. The receipt for a human life is 14 PLN net per hour in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paramedics, doctors, resident doctors, nurses, transplantologists, prison officers and, finally, patients. They talk about a reality straight out of an action film, in which they play understated supporting roles. However, the system is always in the foreground. They, in turn, in addition to putting in superhuman efforts to save lives, try to save the system's failings on a daily basis. At all costs, sometimes against procedures, they fight to minimise losses. Also in human lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pawe\u0142 Kapusta follows a string of outrageous absurdities and procedures that make life difficult for both patients and doctors. Absurdities that are often a direct threat to human life, valued by officials at less than a day's work at the supermarket checkout. Doctors - chronically tired, juggling between the logs thrown up by the system - fall into frustration. Or simply - they leave for the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The close encounters with the everyday life of medical staff in Kapusta's reportages create a poignant picture of the Polish hospital-surgical reality. And they mercilessly point out the systemic black holes for which one pays with one's health and sometimes one's life.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Agonia\u201d to nominowany do Nagrody im. Ryszarda Kapu\u015bci\u0144skiego reporta\u017c Paw\u0142a Kapusty. Na kartach ksi\u0105\u017cki autor \u015bledzi skandaliczne procedury i absurdy utrudniaj\u0105ce \u017cycie pacjent\u00f3w, a tak\u017ce lekarzy. Wiele z nich stanowi realne, bezpo\u015brednie zagro\u017cenie ludzkiego \u017cycia. Stale przem\u0119czeni lekarze, zmuszani przez system do ci\u0105g\u0142ego unikania rzucanych im pod nogi k\u0142\u00f3d, uciekaj\u0105 na Zach\u00f3d albo wypalaj\u0105 si\u0119 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publikacje-polskie"],"yoast_head":"\n