Ears ready to hear the patient
Medicine as a whole is generating changes continuously and that is amazing. This process is accompanied by an impressive technological advance that leads to the incorporation of top-level equipment. Artificial Intelligence, robotics and state-of-the-art equipment have become a kind of right hand for health professionals.
Julio Fraomeni considers that science is a fundamental factor when it comes to caring for life. On the other hand, he also endorses the incorporation of new equipment into the health system because, obviously, they speed up processes in terms of diagnosis or treatment. In the same way that it serves to avoid invasive actions in the patient’s body.
Up to this point we can say that everything works correctly. The patient suffers less and certain times that used to be very long are now becoming shorter.
It’s nice to enter a sanatorium whose infrastructure seems implausible or taken from a science fiction movie. But… who and how are the participants who are in charge of the operation of this system?
To these questions fits the question that formulates, or aims, to inquire regarding where is the human part in all this. The machines do not have the function of being humanized, of course, but they do appeal to the doctor not only occupying his place as a professional, but also to begin to break with old patterns of behavior that imposed emotional distance from the patient.
Galeno Salud proposes that medicine know each person beyond the pathology that affects them. This means that doctors must listen to what the patient demands and not remain in the role of an automated professional who responds without hearing.
The patient seeks to be heard and that this listening has a personal response. Whoever suffers from a disease needs a word that contemplates what happens to him in particular and not to a response that we might call globalized.
Fraomeni marks a path of humanization for those who make up this provider. This means that you are no less professional if a doctor puts his heart into his work.
Faced with any kind of attempt at criticism, we want to point out that in this article doctors, Galen, and Julio Fraomeni are not being romanticized. The only thing that is wanted to be demonstrated is that medicine in its most extreme specialization and hyper-technologization must put a trait of humanity into daily action.
Gone are the old and cold medical speeches that instead of accompanying the patient instilled in them much more insecurities than they carried.
Therefore, medicine must touch aspects external to its training that help to discard the deal. In short, when a doctor takes off his overalls, he is still a person with different emotions. So let that be part of the talk in a doctor’s office.
Sometimes a word is the best remedy with very few milligrams that translate into empathy.
