[The role and achievements in clinical pathophysiology in the Novi Sad region]

Nowadays, clinical pathophysiology in our conditions is a firmly founded branch of medicine which has had an important role in the improvement of diagnostics, scientific and researching work and all forms and levels of education at the Medical Faculty in Novi Sad. The value and usefulness of clinical pathophysiology has been particularly important in the team work within the Clinical center in Novi Sad in the time it was organized as an unique health care institution. Pathological physiology was ready to take over all its tasks foreseen within this type of organization, and through further constructional and equipment improvements it could soon achieve European standards in its work. Professionally unjustified decision for abandoning the concept of Clinical center in Novi Sad has greatly affected health care service in general. Twenty years of work on the improvement of pathophysiology have been thrown away and its important role in the first-class treatment of the patients has been certainly discredited but not denied. If health care service happens to be reorganized following the model of developed countries there will be a chance for the revitalization of clinical pathophysiology and finalization of its development to fulfill the interests of patients for obtaining the high quality treatment in our conditions.