Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“What unsettled me most about Chronicle of a Death Foretold is that there are no clear villains.
The people in the town aren’t cruel.
They’re just ordinary, well-intentioned, bound by roles, routines, and assumptions, people. The system absorbs the warning and carries on.
In cancer care, we see this too.
We normalise long waits and accept fragmented pathways, explaining outcomes after the fact.
That is,
‘The patient ‘presented’ late.’
‘Resources are limited.’
‘That’s the context.’
All of the above can be true and yet still function as stories that protect systems from the discomfort of redesign.
Most harm in health systems isn’t malicious. If anything, it’s predictable, and therefore infinitely preventable.”
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