I would like to talk to you about the things we do today and that our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will find absolutely absurd or ridiculous.

I am sure that it will happen, it may be that I am wrong about what they will find absurd or ridiculous of our society, but surely there will be things that for our posterity will be inconceivable and that we find absolutely normal.

I'm sure of it because we do the same with our great-grandparents and they, in turn, did it with theirs.

I'm not talking about things that for us now are impossible to do otherwise, but of those that are precise choices we make, ways of dealing with problems or needs, which, in hindsight, will seem difficult to understand.

In my opinion one of these absurdities is the "Hospitals" or clinics or how you want to call them. With their corollaries, medical clinics, etc. etc.

Let us make this fact local, the most striking thing, in my opinion: in our hospitals there is an "infectious diseases" department.

Can we think of something more absurd than bringing people with infectious diseases together in one place?

I mean, the most absurd after the processions organized by the church to drive away the plague?

If you think about it, it is a really absurd behavior, also because the infectious disease patient A is weak from the point of view of the immune system and, therefore, easily attacked by the disease B.

After having gathered them all in the same place, we try to create aseptic environments and single rooms by using complex and very expensive devices to prevent these people from coming into contact.

Here I do not talk about problems related to medicine and how it is practiced, see for example here: Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S., I speak of the so-called hospital infections, that is of those diseases contracted in hospital due to the fact that in the hospital there is a probability of coming into contact with serious infection much more than in a home environment.

I speak of the fact that putting sick people, certainly with regard to infectious diseases, but, more generally, suffering from any disease, all together is pure folly.

According to Istat, 2015 data, hospital infections in Italy cause between 4,500 and 7,000 deaths each year.

In his own small way, the waiting room of a small outpatient clinic is a good example of how to spread infectious diseases, perhaps to people who are weakened for other reasons and easy prey for infections, bacteria, viruses, things of which, in the precarious state of health in which they find themselves, they would not absolutely need.

Wouldn't it be easier to take care of them at home?

Wouldn't it be easier if the doctor visited the patients and not all the patients visited the doctor?

Wouldn't it be more logical that the hospital went to the sick person and not vice versa?

The vast majority of visits, therapies and even many analyzes and many diagnostic tests could be carried out directly at the patient's home.

Would it be more expensive? Even if it were, it doesn't seem like a valid motivation, but I believe that it wouldn't be, because the costs of building and maintaining pharaonic structures like hospitals are really high, so I doubt it could be more expensive to do without them.

I just give an example, every hospital bed is equipped with oxygen, but the patients who need oxygen are very few, how much does an implant like this cost? Does it make sense, is it useful or is it just expensive?

Let's not forget the enormous costs for the patient and relatives, even those should enter the cost-benefit ratio.

In my opinion our grandsons cringing will say to each other: "Then they would take all the sick and bring them all together in the same place, think of that absurdity!"