Bioethics? That what it is?…By Félix Martín
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 [...]
Paper kisses
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 [...]
Living until dying
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 [...]
Nothing to hide, much to win… By Eugenia Portillo and Lluís Cabré
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 [...]
Technology, Palliative Care and ICU
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 [...]
80 years taking care of you, by José Carlos Igeño
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, [...]
Night confuses ICU physicians, by Gabriela Vidal
Chronic fatigue related with long hours of work is common in the ICU and this phenomenon is aggravated by acute fatigue related to the night shift and the sleep deprivation. The intensivists are faced with [...]
A letter for the family of a patient death
These letters simply seek to approach you, embrace and accompany. Because everything was very fast and we barely had time. I just want to tell you that the night your father died, all the team [...]
Again with Kant: the foundations of the current humanism, by Félix Martín
What happened at the University Carlos III of Spain a few days ago and immersed fully election campaign (talk - discussion - conversation between two rising young politicians), evidence of intellectual gaps extend to our [...]
One year: 12 months for 12 commitments
From the IC-HU of Hospital Infanta Margarita of Córdoba, we present our project of humanization. With a lot of enthusiasm and with no less effort, it starts in December this adventure, commitment and why [...]