| Journal: | Revista CONAMED |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000378640 |
| ISSN: | 1405-6704 |
| Authors: | Meljem Moctezuma, José1 Burgos Martínez, Leonor Almendra |
| Institutions: | 1Comisión Nacional de Arbitraje Médico, México, Distrito Federal. México |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Volumen: | 18 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 139-143 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | La relación médico paciente, puede llegar a tener gran injerencia en la vida de un paciente, en este caso Frida Kahlo, una de las más importantes exponentes de la pintura moderna mexicana. La historia médica de Frida cuenta con un sinfín de patologías, nace con espina bífida, padece poliomielitis en su infancia acarreando las secuelas de ésta durante toda su vida, a los 18 años sufre un accidente en tranvía cuyas consecuencias en la columna vertebral derivarían en numerosas cirugías e insoportables lumbalgias. Derivado de estos padecimientos acude con el Dr. Leo Eloesser, afamado cirujano de tórax de la Universidad de Stanford con quien entabla una relación médico-paciente que sería de gran importancia para el resto de su vida. Las adversidades que enfrenta Frida continúan a medida que avanza su vida, sufre varios abortos, se divorcia y vuelve a contraer matrimonio con Diego Rivera, es intervenida quirúrgicamente en 7 ocasiones de la columna, se le amputa la pierna derecha, sufre adicciones al alcohol y la morfina, finalmente Kahlo fallece de complicaciones derivadas de una neumonía. En todo momento contó con el apoyo incondicional del Dr. Eloesser, quien logra llevar una relación médico-paciente muy cercana a la ideal, al haber tratado a Kahlo como un ser humano integral, velando por su bienestar físico, mental y emocional |
| English abstract | The patient-physician relationship can have a great influence in a patient’s life, in this case, in the life of Frida Kahlo who was one of the most important figures of modern Mexican painting. Frida’s medical chart includes numerous pathologies: she was born with a forked spine, she suffered from poliomyelitis in her childhood and she carried its consequences all her life; when she was 18 she was in a streetcar accident that caused her injuries in her spinal column that resulted in numerous surgeries and unbearable pain. Because of these ailments she resorted to Dr. Leo Eloesser, a famous thorax surgeon from Stanford University, they established a patient-physician relationship that would be very important for the rest of their lives. The adversities that Frida encountered increased as her life continued, she had several miscarriages, got divorced and remarried Diego Rivera, she had seven spinal surgeries, her right leg is amputated, she has alcohol and morphine abuse; and finally Kahlo dies from a pneumonia complication. In all that time she counted with Dr. Eloesser’s support, whose patient-physician relationship with Kahlo is near to ideal since he treated her as a full human being, taking care of her physical, mental and emotional well-being |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Historia y filosofía de la medicina, Terapéutica, Médico-paciente, Artistas, Kahlo, Frida |
| Keyword: | Medicine, History and philosophy of medicine, Therapeutics, Physician-patient, Artists, Kahlo, Frida |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
