The terrible case at Pantelimon Hospital is largely about the absence of rules. Firstly, the lack of therapeutic protocols, in this case for the administration of noradrenaline. Such very precise therapeutic protocols exist in other countries, and any medical act is evaluated based on them.
Then, the lack of regulation for terminal cases, the criteria and procedures based on which such patients are transferred from an ICU section, intended for severe but viable cases, to a palliative care section. Sections that are very few in Romania, by the way.
And probably in every specialty, such precise regulations would be necessary, which would be of great help both for doctors and patients.
On the other hand, in Romania, not only the absence of rules is the problem. In many other cases, rules exist, even detailed ones, but they are ignored.
A classic example is traffic. On a road of about 130 km, from Argeș to Bucharest, through Târgoviște, a driver who does not exceed the legal speed limit in urban areas is overtaken by 90% of drivers. And not only by cars, but also by trucks and lorries.
Drivers of mammoths are the most upset when they encounter a car that hinders them and do not hesitate to use their flashes and horns.
I say this from experience. The last time I experienced such an episode was exactly in the place where two years ago a child was killed on the road in front of her own house by a speeding car.
The same thing happens near Bucharest, in the forest at Tărtășești, for example, where trucks weave through the road among small cars they are racing with. I have never seen a police car there.
I would even suggest to the Minister of Internal Affairs to get into an unmarked car and go incognito on a road through villages in Dâmbovița and Argeș, for example, to drive at the legal speed and count how many cars and especially how many trucks overtake him, and how many police crews he encounters.
Evidently, Romanians have a problem with rules, even when they exist.
It's the same with corruption. In all opinion polls, it ranks high in people's dissatisfaction. But how many of those who have this dissatisfaction have refused to give a bribe?
And not just when they were conditioned, but for an advantage, to benefit from a shortcut from the rule? How many have complained that they were asked for a bribe in exchange for an advantage?
Let me propose an exercise of imagination: how would Romania look like with respect for rules? In traffic, in institutions, on the streets? And who should build this Romania?