Medical Training for Health

“The explanation of the disease is part of the treatment,” said Dr. Luis Pastor Torres, president of the Andalusian Society of Cardiology

The Andalusian Society of Cardiology (SAC), which these days in Málaga welcomes your XLIII Annual Congress, has organized a panel discussion on “The questions that the cardiologist wanted to do and never did” . Patients have had the opportunity to get answers to questions that are not typically ask the specialist consultation.

Dr. Luis Pastor Torres, president of the Andalusian Society of Cardiology, said that “the questions that most patients do are those of a practical nature, such as lifestyle kept in front of and interest in the hereditary origin the cardiac condition, and yet other equally important issues such as sexuality, “are a taboo subject in the cardiovascular patient.

The chairman of the SAC commented that one of the most frequent communication between the patient and the cardiologist is that “there is a huge medical information in the hands of patients and sometimes disinformation experts rather than informs. It has also highlighted the fact that the introduction of computer “still remains a great tool, its misuse has just absorbing more than half the time of consultation, because the time available is” undoubtedly lower than necessary to complete the information and part of the therapeutic process in the cardiovascular patient.

Pastor Torres opts for a “true communication” since, as noted, for him, “the explanation of the disease is treated.” He has proposed a formula after which the patient should go to consultation with the feeling that has made all the questions I wanted. “There are three parts, the first one listens to the patient, the second reports on the process, and the third will be asked to explain what he understood “.

Finally, the president has ensured that the Andalusian Society of Cardiology organizes periodic meetings between the MIR Andalusian and paramedical subject matter experts with the objective to supplement the training of residents humanistic aspects “, because with the new technological advances,” runs the risk of privileging technical knowledge on the domain of some communication skills and human ‘

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