Abstract
My dear international reader, let me introduce myself: I am an ophthalmologist working in a small university hospital in Croatia. The city where my hospital is located has 200 000 inhabitants, almost as many as a longer street in China. My whole country has fewer citizens than Munich, Germany. Gross domestic product of my country amounts to less than a half of the European Union average, and our national health budget is so humble that it would probably move each and every of 27 European health ministers to tears. At the same time, a considerable portion of medical equipment in Croatian hospitals is of noticeable historical value, which is not so bad since it could probably be sold to an American technical museum to obtain funds for buying new instruments. (I almost forgot: I am a woman, and certain number of patients in our country still put greater trust into male than female physicians.)
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