Monday 08, July, 2024 16 h -
Monday 08, July, 2024
Espais Volart, Barcelona
Eric Cassell explains that the purpose of medicine has always been to prevent people from suffering. Sometimes suffering cannot be avoided, but it can be mitigated. And doctors have not always been interested in sick people with sufficient intensity and dedication to achieve this.
Suffering has been defined as a specific state of distress that occurs when the integrity of the person is threatened or altered. There are two main types of suffering: unavoidable suffering (a diagnosis of cancer) and avoidable suffering (that which is related to the process of care and avoidable adverse effects). In the first case, unavoidable suffering, efforts must be directed at mitigating it: the way things are said, support for the person suffering, information, accessibility to the team, for example. The improvement of the care process must be aimed at eliminating avoidable suffering as far as possible.
One of the most important challenges is the professional's way of identifying suffering and the nuances of this suffering in each person. Observing carefully and asking questions with intention are some of the tools. But the reality is complex.
In this session we want to contrast the way of identifying and expressing suffering from two perspectives: artists who have a vision of the disease and health professionals who have to deal with suffering every day.
Sometimes words are not enough. That is why artists can bring a different dimension to complement the technical perspective which, in the end, is nourished by the sum of many experiences of many patients but perhaps loses important nuances.
Speakers: Jordi Isern, Laia Abril, Dra. Alba Roca Lecumberri i Dr. Albert Lladó.
Date: lunes 8 de julio, 16 h
© Jordi Isern. Sempre torno al lloc on està el meu cos esperant trobar un altre jo distint, 2006
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