According to the results of the survey, it was revealed that, on average, residents of large cities get sick 2 times a year. There were about 40% of them. True, there were 35% of healthy people who prefer to take sick leave once a year or less. At the same time, the majority of respondents (81,25%) do not like to visit a doctor and prefer folk remedies for treatment. But who fills the corridors of clinics and creates queues?
Often, queues at clinics are created by people with chronic diseases and the so-called imaginary patients who just run to the doctor. Among the respondents, such were 15%.
The main reason why patients do not go to the doctor for every illness is their unwillingness to visit the municipal polyclinic (35%). Dissatisfaction is caused by long queues to doctors and poor quality of service, including incompetence of doctors and problems with making appointments.
As always, the minority turned out to be citizens, whom the problems do not concern at all, since they have familiar doctors and are treated according to the recommendations, and only from good specialists. Only 4% were in the privileged group. By the way, there are just as many optimists who take life easily and claim that their illnesses go away on their own.
Summing up the results of the study, Ksenia Markova, head of the Research Department of MAR Consult, said that despite the fact that Russians, according to them, do not get sick so often, the main reason why they do not go to doctors is discomfort from visiting state and municipal hospitals, where there are constant queues, not too courteous and competent staff and bureaucracy flourishes. Well, this once again indicates the long overdue need to reorganize the system of medical support for the population in Russia.