Well, this is the second and final installment of the answers to the questionnaire used for the interview published in the Medical Journal on 25 April.
How often do you update your blog?
I have no specific deadline I write as issues arise, some are current, others are part of the manual residents, or really the antimanual because treatment issues are not in any standard manual
I've also started two new chapters of entries: clinical cases power-point attempt in which to disseminate knowledge about surgery, and photos history is a section for the memory of some patients who have had powerful stories and also a new experience trying to humanize the image of surgery, usually perceived as unpleasant.
- Is it possible to know the number active fan having your blog?
E l number of followers is hard to know because many people read but is not a follower, so if you know the number of visits and which pages are the sources through which is traffic. Since I began to count the visits in April 2010 to 25000 pages were viewed approximately and received 140 comments and as many messages and queries. Keywords used were surgery, patient, MIR, surgeon, medical. Most traffic comes from blogspot , Directorioplus, wordpress, networkeblogs facebook and twitter (@ fjaviherrera).
most visited entries have been, you can see them in the right column, "popular entries
Choosing the wrong specialty ambulatory surgery.
health Hyperspace
medical Guards: a "slavery" of our time
My recipes to choose from the MIR space
The worst call of my life
For medical students and new MIR
MIR exam answers 2010 general surgery (complete)
- What is your specialty? What age?
was born and studied medicine at the Medical Faculty of the UPV in Bilbao I have 52 years and 28 professional. I'm the surgeon general and digestive system, I did the residency at the Hospital Puerta de Hierro in Madrid (1983-88) and work in liver transplantation to 93, since then I have worked in the Hospital de Navarra in Pamplona, \u200b\u200bI am currently Head of Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery Unit of the Hospital de Navarra. My career has focused on Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery and Oncology, did the thesis in 1988 at the end of the residence on liver transplantation.
Why did you become a doctor?
chose to be a physician and surgeon since childhood, I have no idea why, I had no family history, perhaps the number of doctor Ganon (Medical Center) marked me XD.
I do not regret the surgery is a very important part of my life and my passion but I never thought I would have to exercise a monopoly in the public health enterprise. In short I like what I do but not where I have to do-I mean the current public health-and what I do I can not do anywhere else.
have you thought about working abroad?
I have not raised to go abroad for family reasons.
for you What are the defects and virtues of the Public Health System?
major shortcomings from my point of view are:
absence -based career is done, as is done and how. Perhaps the one size fits all policy is the most destructive of the company.
-absence of incentives for innovation and quality at work but otherwise is preached.
-absence of clear objectives of the company off the lists waiting and numbers.
instruments, lack of teamwork.
-political leadership, unprofessional management, lack of clinical management.
purely assistance-Objectives teaching and research remain upset and "productivity."
Virtues:
-as a citizen I believe that health care coverage and are a great social achievement as indicated by the parameters public health.
-public health specialists is good but then mistreated.
Obviously I have no solution for these problems but some steps are:
-generalize the clinical management of multidisciplinary units targeted to address specific problems. Recognize the teams end up with the constant changes of personnel.
-procurement system and pay much more flexible.
-mobility, the fragmentation of regional ministries of health have ended with mobility. Premium in the oppositions are locals only 1 of every 10 seats out to regional transport. If you leave your community to internal, as I did, go back home is impossible or requires a long journey.
-integrate teaching and clinical research in everyday work. It is painful to the low scientific level of some services and how proud we are their managers because they have no waiting list.
-implanted quality programs led by doctors. If the politicians only care about the quality perceived by the patient, they call it customer, and where is the scientific-technical quality?. A patient with a good deal and a pat on the back is left happy but may not have done the right thing.
- provide digital tools including social networks to improve internal communication with patients. Hospitals are a breeding ground for gossip, jokes, gossip or slander: lack visibility, communication and plenty of gossip.
-participate in the design of strategic plans investment and health. The doctors are not consulted to design the health strategy, a seudogerentes the design and some have never seen a patient, that explains the medical-management disagreement.
-have a trade union dialogue own doctors and recruitment conditions specific to each job with productivity linked to results. In many communities and in Navarra our labor issues are negotiated at a table in the health sector that are numerically minority groups-all health of hospital doctors is the smallest.
What is the level of surgery in Spain?
The level of surgery is generally good but not consistent in all hospitals and autonomy. Reference should be improved to expert teams in cases of low frequency and high complexity. Complicating autonomy. Mobility should be improved to enhance learning and reduce the number of MIR to improve the quality of their training. It is difficult to maintain a system which makes more money with simple procedures in private practice with highly complex surgery that is done in public. The younger generations learn that the effort is not rewarded.
improvement of anesthetic and surgical technique has eliminated the contraindications for age and reduced comorbidity related, I've always been concerned about the sense of proportion when making a surgical indication transmit it to future generations. View the blog entries: common sense applied to medicine, less is more , primum non nocere .