Javier Romero-Otero, Head of Urology Department in HM Hospitals and Associate Professor at ANECA, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I share with you the world ranking of the best hospitals worldwide.
It is supposedly based on reputation, qualitative metrics, patient experience and scientific impact.
All these classifications are always very debatable, and not all of them are there but they are all of them.
I can only congratulate them and recognize the work they do, they are an example to imitate, all my admiration.
My personal reflection is that the institutions that are there have a common factor: they are driven by innovation and investigation, only by investing and betting decisively on it can the sector be led and help more and better patients.
In my concern to know and learn, I have visited quite a few world-leading academic institutions, my conclusion is clear: they are not better than us in the management of 95% of patients in daily clinical practice, but they are far behind in research and innovation.
As long as we continue to have institutions that do not understand that they have to work in the present planning for the future, as long as what moves us is the income statement, as long as we professionals in the health sector conceive our profession as merely the clinical act of seeing patients, as long as we do not sit down to measure and think about how to improve our results, As long as we do not believe that we can build institutions like these, in short, as long as we do not understand that technology and innovation are truly the engine of the health sector, we can never be in this ranking.
Betting on this involves a very healthy strategic exercise: you have to think about how to improve a problem, measure your results, plan new protocols, train your professionals.
In short, you take your entire environment out of your comfort zone.
This does not mean that the central axis and cure of medicine is the patient, on the contrary, it is to recognize that we have to put the best means and measure ourselves to help them.
Let’s continue working together to build a better world, each of us using the cards we have.”
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