US EditionA Pediatrician in Bilbao Is Encouraged to Accompany a Girl in Terminal Condition Outside Work Hours
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«I stand here. I am tired, rabid and disappointed with my hierarchical superiors, tired of giving heads against a wall». With these words Dr. Jesús Sánchez Etxaniz announced last Friday that he was taking a job leave, after thirteen years of work in the field of pediatric palliative care, seeing how after weeks of attending the end of the life of a four-year-old girl along with her team the only thing he received from his superiors of the Hospit…
Indignity in Barakaldo: a palliative care pediatrician has been admonished for taking care of a four-year-old girl outside her usual schedule, and using public resources, according to El Correo. Both he and several of his colleagues came to the little girl’s home for a month to be able to give her a dignified death. According to the pediatrician to this newspaper, a superior asked two nurses from his team who came to the girl’s house early in th…
Palliative care professionals not only care for the sick. They also accompany patients and their family members in some of the worst moments of their lives.
“The death of the children does not understand of schedules”: the pediatrician, Jesús Sánchez Etxaniz, who accompanied a girl until the end, even if that cost her a punishment When a 4-year-old girl was living her last days, Dr. Jesús Sánchez Etxaniz did not think of a working time. He did not think if it was a weekend, or if it was outside the rules. He thought of her. In his family. In making that moment the least painful possible. Also read: …
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, showed Tuesday her support to the palliative care doctor warned by Basque health after accompanying a girl in terminal condition outside of her working day, noting that "any professional who is determined to be so accompanies the patients until the last moment, does everything possible and puts all the necessary resources."
The Faltan Botatzen Dugu platform reported the incident, denouncing the "critical situation" of the palliative care service. The doctor published his story on social networks, announcing that he had left work for a while: "It is impossible for me to continue working in these conditions." Osakidetza has denied this information in a statement, confirming that "everything is limited to the suggestion of the professional to use a vehicle properly ou…
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