Libreta de viaje del médico de familia. Iceberg / Family physician´s travel notebook. Iceberg

Estas historias de la LIBRETA DE VIAJE DEL MÉDICO DE FAMILIA, que forman una biblioteca del médico caminante o viajero emocional, son hojas sueltas en las que se escribe sobre paisajes y emociones; son un atlas de geografía emocional. La evocación de un paisaje ante la asistencia a un paciente –montañas, ríos, valles, playas, mares, desiertos, mesetas, islas, pantanos, cascadas, dunas, bosques, salinas, lagos, etc.-, con las sensaciones sentidas por el médico, de calor, frescor, humedad, dificultad, agobio, serenidad, inmensidad, soledad, etc. No es un diario, solo una libreta de apuntes con las vivencias del médico sobre los patrones y procesos de la consulta en un cierto caso clínico, que a su vez, puede ilustrar un prototipo de esa clase de casos (AU)

These stories of the FAMILY PHYSICIAN’S TRAVEL NOTEBOOK, which form a library of the walking doctor or emotional traveler, are loose sheets with writings about landscapes and emotions; they are an atlas of emotional geography. The evocation of a landscape before attending a patient –mountains, rivers, valleys, beaches, seas, deserts, plateaus, islands, swamps, waterfalls, dunes, forests, salt marshes, lakes, etc.-, with the sensations felt by the doctor -heat, coolness, humidity, hardship, stress, serenity, vastness, loneliness, etc. It is not a diary, only a notebook with the doctor’s experiences about the patterns and processes of consultation in a clinical case, which in turn may illustrate a prototype for this type of cases (AU)

[Telemedicine in your suitcase: useful tools for the traveler]. / De la télémédecine dans vos valises: des outils utiles pour le voyageur.

In our digital age, telemedicine becomes, under various forms, a useful companion for the traveler, providing access to up-to-date information about health and security risks, remote consultation of specialists to ascertain a diagnosis of select an appropriate treatment, connection to similar patients in order to obtain contextualized advice, biomedical sensors and other monitoring and diagnostic portable tools, as well as transportable electronic health records enabling continuity of care and mobility. Commercial telemedicine services are being developed specifically for travelers, most of which are using mobile phones as the main device, which thus becomes a real telestethoscope.