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Physician-Researcher, Medical Practice and Research: The Importance of the Physician-Researcher in Current Medicine

Medical education and practice in Brazil suffer from countless limitations, among which lacking scientific training stands out. Recently, the physician-researcher has emerged as a figure capable of partially correcting this gap. In this paper, I will seek to evaluate the physician-researcher’s role.

Conventional medicine is dedicated to the application of medical knowledge. Therefore, it deals with the general characteristics of diseases, namely, symptoms, evolution, pathophysiological impairment of organs and systems, etiology, diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

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Editorial

And We Doctors, What do We Die of?

Gabriel Porto Soares et al. Thais Rocha Salim

We hardly ask ourselves what we will die from. The certainty of this fact can even pass through our thoughts, but it always seems to us something far away and impossible to predict. We can know the causes of death of our fellow human beings to try to predict our death and perhaps use measures to postpone it, since it is impossible to avoid. Societies need to know their numbers, how many we are, how many are born, how many die, how we die, and how we live. These are questions that gain importance with reports of demographic and epidemiological surveys dating back to 400 BC in some ancient civilizations like Greece, Rome, India, and China. The first modern publication in mortality studies dates from 1662 in England, carried out by a London councilor, John Graunt, who published the work entitled “Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality” (), using data of burials in London as information. Through this study, it can be known, for example, that one third of London children died before turning sixteen.^,

In the last century, humanity has gone through an epidemiological transition in terms of causes of death. Infectious diseases are no longer the leading cause of death and have given way to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), especially circulatory system diseases (CAD). NCDs are the main cause of death worldwide, and they are responsible for premature deaths, loss of quality of life, and adverse economic and social impacts. NCDs are responsible for about 70% of global deaths, equivalent to more than 38 million deaths per year, significantly exceeding deaths from external causes and infectious diseases. About 45% of all NCD deaths worldwide, more than 17 million, are caused by CAD. A similar distribution is observed in Brazil, where 72% of deaths result from chronic NCDs, with 30% due to CAD and 16% to neoplasms.

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Radi Macruz – The Legacy of an Icon

Edmar Atik et al. Charles Mady Jose Antonio Franchini Ramires

Radi Macruz, Associate Professor in the Department of Cardio-Pulmonology at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, died in São Paulo on November 30, 2020, at the age of 95.

He was born on July 5, 1925 in São Paulo, son of the Lebanese couple Kalil and Nini Macruz. Attended medical school at FMUSP and became the great pioneer physician, introducing many advances that made him one of the most relevant icons. He was an idealizer in pursuit of the most appropriate dynamics of science and scientific discoveries.

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Physician-Researcher, Medical Practice and Research: The Importance of the Physician-Researcher in Current Medicine

And We Doctors, What do We Die of?

Radi Macruz – The Legacy of an Icon

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