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Patient-centric or hospital-centric healthcare

As of January of this year, I have been daily in the hospital, partly for myself and mostly for visiting my mother (who did brake her hip). This article focuses on the experience with my own health issue.   Since April 2013 I am having some breathing issues, especially when I do some physical exercise. However, it is good to know that I do daily some sports since my 6 th year or so. After a few visits to my doctor, I was send to this newly opened (January 2014) hospital in my hometown. I have visited the cardiologist a few times, did a CT scan and bike exercises. After that I did many lung tests and visited the lung-specialist. Each time the specialist did give me a vague description of his conclusions and told me to discuss the progress with my doctor. Each specialist is strictly sticking to his own area of expertise and says nothing about possible other causes. I know because I did ask the respective specialist and each time they responded that they did have a hunch, but w