Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0020 October, 2015|
Look at this picture. Do you know what this space is? You are right! This is the Alfred Hospital ICU in Melbourne.I look at this picture and I see a wonderful space: bright, spacious, very well distributed, with very clean lines, where predominantly white color reflects cleaning while the wood of the great central volume gives a touch of warmth [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0017 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Next week on road to Porto, to the Jornadas de Medicina Intensiva Da Primavera, organized by the Hospital de Santo António do Centro Hospitalar do Porto. A tremendously evocative title: "Where we are and where are we going?" that also is the title of the opening conference, by Dr. Jean-Louis Vincent.And a program that will focus [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0016 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We are sure that Chema Cepeda will be happy: If someone in Spain talks about it is him: "Technology will advance health always if we apply it in a suitable and person-centered context".He explains it in his post "Humanism in health and approach technologies" (only available in Spanish): Is technology the only responsible of the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:10+01:0015 October, 2015|
Those who were lucky enough to share a little time with the great Mamen Segovia will never forget her formula for health counselling: REA. She breaks down to perfection and which is basically a balanced dose of: Respect Empathy Authenticity Three magic words that taken to the reality lead to extraordinary results. Mamen also talks about the high [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:13+01:0014 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. One of the actions of improvement proposed by the IC-HU Project is to recover the narrative for the Health.IntraMed partners offer a free online workshop in Narrative and Medicine from October 19th to November 30th (only available in Spanish). The proposal of linking Medicine and Narrative tries to bring new conceptual tools and cognitive [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:13+01:0013 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Next Friday October 16th is the European Restart a Heart Day .To celebrate this great event, The First Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Simulation will be carried out at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid. It is a multidisciplinary workshop to highlight one of the fundamental techniques that the entire population should know.We want [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:14+01:0010 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. October 10th, Palliative Care World Day It is now. Shout it! By necessity. Because they are an integral and essential practice. Because they help us to live better. Because they promote teamwork and a major sense of the human being. Because they really matter. Let them know!There are 40 million people in the world [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:14+01:009 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. I already wanted to share this gift that Enric Benito sent me a couple of months ago."Diagnosing Suffering: A Perspective" was published in Annals of Internal Medicine in 1999 by one of those persons who is just becoming a master: Eric J. Cassel. Key points of the article:It is crucial to relieve suffering.Suffering cannot [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:14+01:008 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. A few days ago Fabiana Ciccioli from Argentina wrote an accurate reflection: OPEN MIND = OPEN DOOR."If we open our mind to other paradigms, the doors of our ICU will open too. If we put ourselves for a moment in the skin of a mother who leaves her baby and can´t feed him that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:14+01:007 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, mis queridos amigosOne more time our friends of the Center of Humanization of Health are organizing today and tomorrow X Workshop of Family and Palliative Care. You can join for free. This is the programm. October 7th Wednesday 15.45-16.30: registration16:30-17:00: Opening ceremony17:00-18:00: Opening talk: Palliative care: yesterday, today and tomorrowSpeaker: Mr. Pablo Sastre, doctor, Master in palliative [...]
