Can we resist disease mongering campaigns? Yes, we can

5 Oct

Swine flu was managed is such a way by World Health Organization and national authorities that created panic. At the end of the epidemic WHO and national authorities did not do an analytical exercise to examinate their errors. So they were not errors but a world campaign of “disease mongering”. The Spanish case of the successfull counter-campaign swine flu can help in resisting disease mongering campaign; it is described in six step in the power-point presentation.

Why become a doctor if there’s Internet? Open letter to a first year medical student

15 Sep

In the Internet era being a human and scientific physician is even a more important question than previously. In this open letter to a student of first year the author review the foundation of physicians’ work and promote a style of a professional who loves their duties.

  • Why become a doctor if there’s Internet? Open letter to a first year medical student. Gérvas, J. September 2010. Download English version here.

Political borders as scientific barriers in general practice. Portugal and Spain as a case study

15 Aug

Ignorance is frequently the rule in between neighbours. This study focus on political borders as scientific barries with data from Portuguese and Spanish publications in the field of General Practice. Spanish authors fully ignore their Portugueses colleages which in turn cited them just in low percentage. Both use to cite English papers, as the European publications do no exit if publish in other language.

  • Political borders as scientific barriers in general practice. Portugal and Spain as a case study. Villanueva, T., Cavadas, L.F., Gérvas, J., Padilla, J., Serrano, E., Cofiño, R. Eur J Gen Pract. 2010. doi: 10.3109/13814788.2010.498883. Download whole article here.

Clinical prevention: patients´ fear and the doctor’ s guilt

19 Jan

Prevention is an activity which frequently has is foundation in patients´fear and the doctor’ s guilt. So confronting prevention in many cases doctors and patients lose the scientific point of view.

Clinical prevention: patients´ fear and the doctor’ s guilt. Gérvas, J., Heath, H., Durán, A., Gené, J., Members of the Seminar of Innovation 2008. Eur J Gen Pract. 2009; 15: 122-4. Download whole article here.

Presentation for the Second Virtual Congress of General Practice and Family Medicine (2009)

2 Nov

Presentation for the Second Virtual Congress of General Practice and Family Medicine (2009) about self-learning and  the Internet. Key questions are perseverance, asking good questions during the clinical encounter and do not use self-compassion as an excuse (“I have no time today”).

Download presentation here.

Swine flu vaccination, better natural immunity than artificial one

31 Oct

Swine flu vaccination, better natural immunity than artificial one.

Spain and swine flu

30 Oct

Note about the Spanish movement asking for calm and common sense regarding the A flu.

  • Spain and swine flu. Gérvas, J, Villanueva, T. CMJA. 15 de septiembre de 2009 [letter]. Go to the letter.
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