Abstract

A provincial general practitioner consults an ophthalmologist for a visual problem that afflicts him and that is affecting his day-to-day performance. Request a consultation to be paid by the prepaid medicine system to which you are affiliated. Despite identifying himself as a doctor, he does not get an appointment with a good opportunity and when attending it, he finds that despite being a colleague of the ophthalmologist, they must pay the required co-payment in addition. When asked if, as a colleague of the treating physician, you do not have an exemption from paying co-payments, they answer that this exemption from charging colleagues for medical services was abolished with the advent and development of the social health security system that the country adopted a few decades ago. The patient doctor pays the required co-payment with discomfort and when he returns to his hospital he complains about the lack of collegiality from his treating doctor. He decides to refer his case to a medical ethics committee in the region.