At Salut i Força we pride ourselves on having the best proper names. Precisely, throughout these last days, the outstanding quality of the collaborators who give us the honor of contributing their talent and knowledge to this project of health dissemination has once once more become evident. This is the case of Dr. Jaume Orfila, a prestigious internist and head of the unit in this specialty at the Son Espases University Hospital, who recently received an award from the health media ‘El Suplemento’ in the context of the sixth edition of the Awards XXI Century Medicine.
In addition to being a great friend of this company and an excellent professional, Dr. Orfila has been a scientific adviser to Salut i Força, practically since the origins of this specialized information proposal in the healthcare and hospital field. In this sense, he is one of the ‘cum laude’ members, if we may use this unmistakably university expression, of the great family that our always longed-for Joan Calafat began to shape more than two decades ago.
We can never be sufficiently grateful to Dr. Orfila for the support he has provided to Salut i Força throughout all these years. In addition to the written collaboration that we publish in our biweekly newspaper to enrich the content of our central scientific article, Dr. Orfila has never had a ‘no’ to any request that we have forwarded to him. For this reason, you can already imagine the pride that the entire Salut i Força family felt when contemplating doctor Jaume Orfila in the gallery of the Siglo XXI Medicine Awards, in Madrid, collecting his distinction and directing his learned words to the attendees . In a certain way, we feel that we are part of this award, because its recipient is already an inseparable part of the past, the present, and, of course, the future of Salut i Força.
The other proper name that we want to refer to is that of Dr. Margalida Gili, professor of Social Psychology at the University of the Balearic Islands and current vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Gili was the star guest of the Salut i Força program broadcast on March 8, coinciding with International Women’s Day. And her choice as a special guest speaker on this commemorative day was not at all by chance, since on a date dedicated to claiming real equality between women and men, the example of empowerment represented by Dr. Gili is, to say the least, significant. With undergraduate Medicine studies perfectly consolidated in the Balearic Islands, it is fair to look back and recognize to the extent that it deserves the irreplaceable contribution of this prestigious teacher and researcher when it comes to turning into reality a project that at the time seemed little less than a chimera.
Not surprisingly, Dr. Gili was the first dean of the Faculty of Medicine and, later, as vice-dean, she has formed a successful tandem with her successor in office, Dr. Miquel Roca. Both have battled without quarter so that young people from the Balearic Islands who aspire to practice the noble medical profession are not forced to seek accommodation in universities on the peninsula or abroad, unless that is their expectation and their family’s resources allow it. Today, there is full unanimity on the islands regarding the success of incorporating Medicine studies into the academic offer of the UIB.
However, not too long ago, this confluence of favorable opinions was not such, and it was in this complex setting that Dr. Gili was able to take the first steps to materialize a colossal work for which the Balearic population will always owe her deep appreciation. doctors Margalida Gili y Jaume OrfilaThank you very much on behalf of the citizens of this great little country.
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