Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:007 October, 2014|
One of the many issues that we can consider in the accompaniment is what to say or what to do while we are doing just that: accompanying.Doubts and fears assail against the silences or pauses. We need a conversation or an activity with which to fill that space.In this we can learn a lot from animals. I am sure that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:004 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear Friends: Yesterday, Héctor G. Barnés published in El Confidencial his article: Los trapos sucios (y los agobios) de la profesión médica, según un doctor de EEUU (Dirty laundry (and the hassles) of the medical profession, according to a U.S. doctor). It seems to me that it is a must read."I have become the kind of doctor [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:003 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.Yesterday, I read a marvellous post by Dr. Salvador Casado, Lo peor de la Soledad es la desconexión (The worst of loneliness is the disconnection). Without a doubt, I recommend enjoy and learn it (only available in Spanish).He talks about something that many of us begin to glimpse, something that when you see, you can [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:51+01:002 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. Published in ESICM web, the article "South African critical care nurses' views on end-of-life decision making and practices." (Nursing in Critical Care, 2013) talks about the results of a survey of ICU nurses in South Africa. The purpose of the study was to describe end-of-life decision making experiences and practices. The study finds that [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:52+01:001 October, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends. As you know, is taking place in Barcelona the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) congress. One of the initiatives that are being conducted, thanks to Life Priority and with the support of the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) is the Train with Destination LIFE. During a train trip, interested travelers receive a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:52+01:0030 September, 2014|
Hello everybody, my dear friends: Recently I published in this blog the post Transforming Healtcare Through the Power of Listening , to inform you that from 30 to 31 October is going to celebrate the European Listening and Health Conference (ELAHC) in Nijmegen (The Netherlands). I thought that inscription fee were too expensive from someone from Spain, so I applied a [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:53+01:0027 September, 2014|
Talk about "teamwork" is easy in those places where this is a guideline, but tremendously complicated with whom has no clear the meaning. Recently I read a post of the great Miguel Ángel Máñez (@manyez) where he said: "teamwork is one of the current mantra in health organizations. But actually "teams" that exist are really teams ? Or rather are pseudoteams based [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:53+01:0026 September, 2014|
The recently deceased Robin Williams participated in several films that have marked me: Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Hook, Jumanji... Photo: fanpop But one of my favorites is Patch Adams, the the life of a doctor/clown. It´s plenty of details and scenes that show the necessary humanization of health but I would like to share with you three of them that speak of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:53+01:0025 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Dr. Alberto García Oguiza, a friend of mine, Neuropaediatrician and mate at University of Alcalá, shares with us the next document From the blog Pediatría Basada en pruebas. The Decalogue of recommendations (based on ethics and etiquette) for better communication with parents (and families) in the NICU, contains a summary of the article published in JAMA Pediatrics by the [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T19:00:54+01:0024 September, 2014|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends: Next weekend starts the 27 th Annual Congress of European Society of Intensive Care (ESICM) in en Barcelona, from September 27th to October 1st. ESICM LIVES 2014 will be an awesome congress with an amazing program: • Continuous sessions in 10 rooms, with more than 800 lectures, debates and interactive training sessions• 3 special sessions with [...]
