Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:55+01:0019 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Only a few days remain to finish this incredible 2015, which has brought us all parts of Spain, Portugal and Colombia and has allowed us to meet many people in love with our work and wanting a change. And we can´t forget these National Days in May, which also mobilized more than 150 people everywhere [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:56+01:0018 December, 2015|
A few days ago a patient has made me thinking about an aspect of the humanization that healthcare professionals have forgotten. And he is not one patient either: he is Carles Capdevila, journalist and founder of the newspaper Ara, from his column in this publication. It is a very special thought.Carles Capdevila is going through an oncological process. I don't [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:56+01:0017 December, 2015|
Every year at this time I usually write the "my wish list". For my, this is still a moment for thinking very special, but mainly of illusion, as when I was a child. This year I would like to share "my wish list" with you:1. I would like natural light for de ICU.I want natural light so that patients could [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:56+01:0016 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Do you know the Hospital Optimista Awards? This brilliant idea looks for to recognize those practices or projects that improve the environment of the patient and the family. It is a solidarity campaign open to the participation of public and private enterprise, where it is possible any type of collaboration by health professional associations, associations [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:56+01:0015 December, 2015|
Bioethics is ethics applied (which has rules) which settles disputes between ethical axioms (which we have concreated in deontology) and ontology (part of metaphysics that is the be general and transcendental properties). It is therefore an attempt to resolve conflicts from an abstract level (abstraction of circumstance). This attempt can be undertaken in three main ways: from utilitarianism, from principlism [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:0012 December, 2015|
99 days Give me a paper kiss mom, those which remain stuck between your mask and mine, those which do not have a temperature but which sound like your usual kisses. Paper kisses like candy that can get caught in the pleats of the mask, and back home I will catch and pasting them on the cheeks. We were [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:0011 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Today we recommend you the TEDxRíodelaPlata by Dr. Matías Najún, "Living until diying". "Where life becomes blurred, where only the care and affection, where a gesture in time, a well thought out remedy or the opinion of those who know can make the end of the road more bearable for one and their circumstances. [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:0010 December, 2015|
In the ICU of Hospital de Barcelona we have been 26 years working with an open regime of visits during the hours of the day (10:30 AM to 22 PM) and perhaps it´s time to step forward and allow the entry of the family by night.For us it is not a worthwhile, we have not had to adapt to a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:57+01:009 December, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Just published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, today we coment the article "Using Technology to Create a More Humanistic Approach to Integrating Palliative Care Into the Intensive Care Unit", signed by Christopher E Cox and J. Randall Curtis, thanks to Drs. Vicente Gómez and Wesley Ely. A decade ago, the main [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:58:58+01:008 December, 2015|
Dear friends: Hospital San Juan de Dios de Córdoba has just reached 80 years.Hospitality is the supreme value of the Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Dios around the world for centuries. Hospitality includes quality, respect, responsibility and spirituality. The concept of hospitality translates into a virtue or quality which consists of treating well and with kindness to others. The [...]
