Dr. Mario Uribe, surgeon, specialized in studies in Chile, Belgium and the United States. Although perhaps the most peculiar thing about his career are the 387 operations in 45 days that he performed in Liberia, while he was a volunteer for Doctors Without Borders.
Colleagues who know him closely told us that he is a “great master of medicine.” What does that mean? We tried to find out as we talked to him about how Chile’s public system prepared him to be able to make accurate diagnoses and operate without machines in West Africa, and he also explained how live organ transplants work.
In fact, Chile has made significant advances in live donation surgery, a difficult and high-precision technique. But in the podcast we talk about how live donation implies “a failure of a country’s donation policy”: it means that few people volunteer to donate when they die, and that is why this much more dangerous option is resorted to, where a living patient is the donor.
No wonder the Minsal this Sunday published a campaign to encourage organ donation, and although it was quite criticized by specialists, it gives us a clue about what Dr. Uribe tells us: there is an urgency in organ donation education in Chile .
Finally, we find out why Dr. loves to use humitas and what the design he chooses means for each moment.
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