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 [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:15+01:006 October, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.We continue with the activity, this is non-stop!.Next Thursday October 8th, as a part of the course "The process of dying. Accompanying the end of life patient and his family. Elaboration of the grief", (programm only available in Spanish) a workshop will take place in the Hall of acts of the Hospital de San Juan [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:15+01:003 October, 2015|
Peter (the intensivist physician) and Eva (the veteran nurse) had a bad relationship and everybody know.The air was cut when you were with them. They bother to the rest of the team. When I came on shift that Saturday, my mate told me that the patient of the box 4 had a transient femoral pacemaker. He was admitted because of [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:15+01:002 October, 2015|
The 5th International Conference on Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care (ACPEL 2015) recently held in Munich is the most important international meeting on care planning and treatment. During four days, the most consolidated promotion and education programmes, research and local experiences were presented. You can read summaries of communications in the supplement of September of BMJ Supportive [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:15+01:001 October, 2015|
Hola everybody, my dear friends. Next Friday October 2nd at 4 PM will take place at Colegio Oficial de Enfermería de las Islas Baleares (COIBA) a workshop on Humanizing Intensive Care. Our love mate Concha Zaforteza, who has recently designated as Nursing Director of Hospital Comarcal de Inca, will carry out the talk. Participation is free, but registration is required [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:16+01:0030 September, 2015|
Hola a tod@s, my dear friends.As soon as possible it will be available "The Caring of Invisible", our speech at TEDxValladolid. I feel very happy for having this chance last Saturday.Thanks once again to Chema Cepeda by rolling me up to the Red Dot and Belén Viloria for believing that we had an idea worth spreading. The talk is been [...]
Gabi Heras2019-08-02T18:59:16+01:0029 September, 2015|
The undersigned was a patient...several times. Personally, I think it´s good to have been hospitalized on different occasions throughout y our life if you are a physician. Well, mostly...for your patients.When I was five, I remember seeing my father and brothers just once every 15 days through a glass, but today that pathology is considered banal. They were 70´s. Other [...]
