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Less than three years have passed since your arrival to Hořovice Hospital. Can you summarize what has changed in the internal medicine department during your almost three-year tenure?
I joined Hořovice Hospital with a clear managerial goal - to build a new internal medicine department with a cardiology annex. During my tenure, more than half of the team of doctors in the department was renewed - from graduates to the head of the ICU. The pulmonary and sleep disorders outpatient clinics, the obesitology and endocrinology outpatient clinics, several general internal medicine outpatient clinics were newly opened, and the gastroenterology outpatient clinic was significantly strengthened. The cardiology outpatient clinic has been significantly strengthened in terms of equipment, where we have started to implement new examination methodologies of supra-regional level. In these approximately 2.5 years I can say that in my opinion the NH internal medicine department is at least at the level of a quality facility of a large regional hospital.
So why did you decide to give up the primary care?
In this already quite stable situation, I have decided to hand over the management of the whole department to my deputy (whom I will assist whenever I can) and I will again devote myself on several levels to pure cardiology, which is my specialty of heart. Firstly, I will continue to work in the department that I have built as the head cardiologist of the Hořovice Hospital and I will try to expand this field even further in the hospital, for example by introducing additional methodologies, expanding cooperation with cardiac centres and, of course, I will continue to perform specialised examinations. Secondly, I will devote more time to my private practice in the northern Pilsen region, which I am expanding with my collaborators with the aim of once again providing a complete, highly superior cardiology service, which the reduced hours at the Hořovice Hospital will better enable me to do than before. Thirdly, I will continue - as before - to work in interventional cardiology at the University Hospital in Pilsen.
To whom will you hand over the Primary Internal Medicine?
I will hand over the management of the internal medicine department to my long-term deputy, MUDr. Marketa Veverková, who, in my opinion, fully meets the professional and human prerequisites to lead a larger team. We have been working closely together all along and will continue to do so. Since my arrival, the hospital has been undergoing a rocketing development in terms of personnel and equipment, and I am proud that I have been able and will be able to help such a clearly positive development in the future.
Was the desire to become a doctor a clear choice in your childhood?
I cannot say that the choice to become a doctor was clear from childhood. I guess like everyone I went through a certain development from unrealistic childhood dreams to already realised projects. Of course, I was influenced by my environment (both parents are doctors) and by the time I was growing up I was seriously deciding between human and veterinary medicine. However, in my personal opinion, no matter how absorbing and fulfilling your work is and how you achieve objectively excellent results in it, you must always have the possibility of further self-fulfilment and not get stuck at the apparent top. For me, this is not allowed by my builder nature and the constant development of other projects. So I look forward to further cooperation!
