2023 Volume 40 Issue 3 Pages 161-165
I will describe how to make the medical networks and to organize it in the actual disasters and routine clinics based on my personal experience at East Japan Great Earthquake in Fukushima on March 11, 2011. In this paper, I will summarize some tips in organizing the medical networks because I wrote actual matters in making and using the medical networks previously.
As mentioned in my previous papers, neurologists should play a role as one doctor, not specialist, in the acute phase of the disaster, and in the subacute phase, play a role as an organizer for the patients transfer corroborating with nationwide staffs of any kinds including Self–Defense Force members and local doctors or medical staffs. When recovered to usual medical situation, we used the medical networks, such as telemedicine. The COVID pandemic has made us to use the telemedicine more frequently as compared with pre–COVID time because the patients had several difficulties in visiting our clinics often.
The most important tip to prepare the medical networks and make a new network is to communicate with all kinds of staffs frankly and to make a mood to say anything to all members without hesitation. The frank mutual communication between all members within the group or between the groups is also the most critical point for using the prepared networks on site. This point is also stressed in the guideline for the ideal leaders.
My final message is simple as follows.
MAKE A FRIENDLY, JOYFUL MOOD IN YOUR WORKPLACE, AND COMMUNICATE WITH ALL STAFFS OF ANY KINDS FRANKLY.
