Finns have increased life expectancy, and therefore the retirement age must be raised, says Countryside doctor Tapani Kiminkinen

“When I stayed At the age of 68, I retired from the post of doctor at the Saarijärvi health center. I met Kiminkinen.

So there is no known 70th anniversary celebration. The Kiminkis are heading to Tenerife for their birthday. The program includes “running”, i.e. a daily run, a good drink at the edge of the pool and Ulla-acquired by the wife Janne Flinkkilän written by Pedro-biography.

Kiminkinen reveals that he is a big consumer of biographies, and Pedro Hietanen belonged to Kiminkin’s wide circle of acquaintances. Well-known names are dropped in a country doctor’s speech like a health center doctor drops e-prescriptions.

Although the doctor’s post has been left, Kiminkinen has not retired. In 2009, Ylen came to the attention of the entire nation Dr. Kiminkinen – the doctor who graduated from the program still works in the welfare area.

“Yeah, I can’t wait.”

Just before the interview, he has arrived from a gig in Karstula, a neighboring municipality of Saarijärvi. He also still goes to talk about health on ships, in churches and even in nightclubs. Most of the gigs are accompanied by his wife Ulla.

“I speak, and Ulla pulls asah [joogaa].”

Work is An essential, rewarding part of himself for Kiminki. He says that he admires the old municipal doctor mentality and the lifestyle that was part of it, where you were part of the surrounding community.

“Once upon a time, people with higher education, such as rovasts, vallesmanns and school principals, felt that it was their job to support the community, its cultural life and to be involved in municipal life. I think the same.”

The rural doctor is always available.

“For example, I go to the nursing home at night to sew a wound and see the dead, so that after death I no longer have to travel around the province.”

Tourism in the sick province will be very expensive. Kiminkinen says that the trip from Saarijärvi nursing home by ambulance to Nova hospital in Jyväskylä costs 1,500 euros for the first day.

“If I go to take care of the matter, I will have to pay the price of the loan. I try to earn my salary with my actions.”

Kiminkinen has a clear view on social security reform.

“Politics should not be mixed up with such professional matters.”

Print would happen if experts dictated actions and politicians and civil servants procured the funding, Kiminkinen sums up. It is the total costs of the treatment that should be considered.

“In the welfare area, it’s easy to give a taxi card a hundred kilometers away, when you don’t have to pay for it yourself.”

Another politically difficult solution concerns our multi-channel system, where primary health care is provided by both public health care, partly Kela-reimbursed private and occupational health care. Kiminkinen says that eliminating or phasing out the Kela compensation from the occupational health service’s hospital visits should be considered.

“The employer could pay them if he wanted to. No one dares to say this, but I dare, and THL does Mika Salminen has dared.”

Kiminkinen in my opinion, occupational health care in big cities is mostly a cool indoor job where you don’t have to be on call. The patients are also young and healthy. It follows from this that the occupational health doctor’s knowledge of nursing is often not at the same level as if he were doing a full-time job.

We would get people to fill the exhausting doctor positions if the welfare regions decided not to buy gig doctors from companies.

“These solutions and the in-house doctor model would fix the welfare system, rather than putting half of Finland in the same welfare area. On the contrary, it could increase transport costs.”

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“The retirement age must be raised.”

Kimkinkinen says he is a holist. That is, one or two blissful health tips will not come off him.

He describes health as a table based on four legs: The first leg is the food of the childhood home, the second is social relationships, the third is a relationship, and the fourth is community support.

“On top of these, lifestyles and genetic inheritance come into consideration. The four table legs have unfortunately become thinner in recent decades.”

What if the doctor would order a little longer working years for everyone?

In terms of calculation, the retirement age cannot be the same all the time, says Kiminkinen.

“Since [sydän- ja verisuoniterveyden tutkimus- ja edistämishanke] The North Karelia project started in 1972, Finnish men have gained about fourteen years of life expectancy and women ten. The retirement age must be raised.”

Moreover.

“In many ways, we need seniors and their experience in working life. We still have caregivers in their 80s working shifts in the welfare area, I’m no wonder at 70.”

What would you tell your 20-year-old self?

“When I was young, I was a shy boy, an only child. I felt like I wasn’t good enough. I would say that Tapani, you are really cared about. Dare to be yourself. These are the pain points I have had to go through.”