2012, Number 6
Death as life experience and work to announce the death humanistic medicine
García-Rillo A, García-Pérez L, Duarte-Mote J
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Language: Spanish
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Page: 598-602
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ABSTRACT
The death always has been a topic of controversy for the medicine, so beside representing the term of the human life, makes manifest the disability of the medical science to stop the natural history of the disease. It expresses in a concrete way, the limitations of the doctor opposite to the power of the nature. In addition it is a daily event during the medical practice, but how is to the doctor formed with regard to the death? The student of medicine passes along experiences, in classrooms and hospitals, which allow him to know the concept of death from different perspectives. Learning the terms of cellular death, necrosis and apoptosis (in the classrooms and laboratories); he learns anatomy practising in corpses (in the room of dissections); later to attend the coma, the cerebral death and the clinical death (in his practices of hospital). It is here where demonstrates the character, the temperance, the sensibility and the humanism of the student and the doctor on having faced the death of the similar one, it be a question of the age about which it treats itself. For example: to observe a young person to stick to the life, reflecting in his face the desire to live to the age that starts projecting his future and aspirations truncated by a mortal suffering; a young mother who leaves in the orphanhood his children; a father who is the only support of the family; or that child whose innocence and tenderness soften anyone; in end, it is very difficult to assimilate, that towards a moment we could have condition speaking with this person, we had greeted her and probably even his worry had demonstrated us of dying, and, now this person is a corpse. For what the question arises on " how the professional of the medicine informs to the patient the imminence of the death ".REFERENCES