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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</publisher-name>
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          <subject>Viewpoint</subject>
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        <article-title>The New Faces of Medicine &#8211; a Journey and a Perspective</article-title>
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            <surname>Jatene</surname>
            <given-names>Adib</given-names>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
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        <country>Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo,
               SP &#8211; Brazil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c01"><bold>Mailing Address: Prot&#225;sio Lemos da Luz</bold>, Avenida Dr. En&#233;as
               Carvalho de Aguiar, 44, 5&#186; andar, bloco 2, sala 8, Jardim Paulista. Postal Code
               05403-900, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil E-mail:
               <email>protasio.luz@incor.usp.br</email></corresp>
        <fn fn-type="deceased">
          <p>in memoriam</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>104</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>e25</fpage>
      <lpage>e25</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2015</year>
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          <day>29</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2015</year>
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          <month>01</month>
          <year>2015</year>
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        <kwd>Adib Jatene (in memorian)</kwd>
        <kwd>Editorial</kwd>
        <kwd>Teaching</kwd>
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        <kwd>Faculty, Medical</kwd>
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    <p>Professor Prot&#225;sio da Luz, basic science and clinical researcher and renowned cardiologist,
         offers us his newest book <italic>The New Faces of Medicine</italic>. It is a presentation
         of his vision of the scientific and humanistic bases of medicine, its evolution and its
         future.</p>
    <p>With expressive illustrations, the book presents us with the importance of the connection
         of technique with the human, of science with the relationship of physicians and patients.
            <italic>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the anamnesis yet. It&#8217;s just the first approach to know the
            person.&#8221;</italic> This seemingly trivial sentence contains deep wisdom and experience of
         the professional and professor of medicine practicing one of the major goals of the
         university: to propagate knowledge for improvement of students and physicians in
         general.</p>
    <p>Above all, the instigating reading takes us on a journey through the history of
         achievements of science and medicine, with their technological progress on the
         understanding of diseases and their treatments. </p>
    <p>In parallel, the book presents a critical analysis of our health system, encompassing the
         training, specialization and performance of physicians in Brazil, as well as the structure
         of financing and care made available to health professionals and to the population. Among
         other aspects, it is interesting to discover how medicine requires technology and, at the
         same time, how it can be humanized and applied sensibly and with a holistic view. On the
         other hand, the book leads us to the idea of medicine as an activity strongly aimed at the
         person as a social community, transiting between the individual and the collective. As much
         as technology has evolved, the&#160;person remains the same and, in the face of illness, becomes
         an afflicted, distressed and scared being. I often say that the opposite of fear is not
         courage; the opposite of fear is faith. Therefore, the physician works along with the
         individual as a person and, at the same time, is inserted into a social context, with
         profound implications. The book shows the importance of institutions in teaching and
         sustaining this path, with examples relevant to our environment. In this process, the
         author is able to contribute with his personal experience to a universal wisdom and lead us
         softly down this path, but at the same time, in a clear, dynamic and contemplative way. One
         feels, in these reports, the voice of Hemingway: &#8220;<italic>If you want to be universal, talk
            about your own village</italic>&#8221;.</p>
    <p>The author also gives us his contribution with regard to the need and the opportunity for
         the use of the scientific method, of the accuracy in the design, of the conduction and
         conclusion of clinical and experimental studies, and the importance of the critical mind of
         the reader, when studying articles published in various medical journals. Above all, he
         puts us face to face with the interface between the academic scientific method and its
         application to clinical reasoning. When he comments about the mentors who guided his way,
         he introduces us to something that only recently came to be called &#8220;evidence-based
         medicine&#8221;, which is nothing but the applied systematization of the scientific method to the
         medical activity. He shares with the reader his experience in the various aspects of
         academic life, in a manner accessible and pertinent to the everyday world of all those
         interested in understanding the making and receiving of medicine as something interwoven
         into the human condition. He especially shows medical science as something intuitive and
         simple, not as something inaccessible and complicated. And above all, he shows how a
         physician must immerse himself or herself in the scientific method to build a solid body of
         knowledge with Cartesian bases, doing so with humility without disregarding common sense,
         and cultivating honesty of thought and action.</p>
    <p>The book ends with &#8220;Future challenges&#8221; which is a reaffirmation of belief in the humane
         essence of medicine&#160;- <italic>&#8220;The physician will never disappear ...&#8221; </italic>without
         losing the perspective that technology will continue to provide us with better and more
         effective ways to act, if we maintain critical thinking and minds open to the new. It is
         timely and relevant to analyze that <italic>&#8220;The new is not necessarily the best&#8221;</italic>,
         as the author didactically points out.</p>
    <p>It is a book with special meaning for medical students, physicians, researchers and health
         administrators in general, but thanks to its clear and objective language without losing
         good emotional charge, also to the general public. It can be read in the order preferred by
         the reader, since despite their broad spectrum, the chapters are all complete in themselves
         and have great relevance.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Adib Domingos Jatene</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of Medicine University of S&#227;o Paulo</p>
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          <subject>Ponto de Vista</subject>
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        <article-title>As Novas Faces da Medicina &#8211; uma Jornada e uma
               Perspectiva</article-title>
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            <surname>Jatene</surname>
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        <institution content-type="original">Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo,
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        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Prot&#225;sio Lemos da Luz</bold>, Avenida Dr. En&#233;as
               Carvalho de Aguiar, 44, 5&#186; andar, bloco 2, sala 8, Jardim Paulista. CEP 05403900, S&#227;o
               Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil E-mail: <email>protasio.luz@incor.usp.br</email></corresp>
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        <kwd>Editorial</kwd>
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        <kwd>Docentes de Medicina</kwd>
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      <p>O Professor Prot&#225;sio da Luz, pesquisador de ci&#234;ncia b&#225;sica, cl&#237;nica e cardiologista
            renomado nos brinda com seu mais novo livro <italic>As Novas Faces da Medicina</italic>.
            Trata-se da apresenta&#231;&#227;o de sua vis&#227;o das bases cient&#237;ficas e human&#237;sticas da medicina,
            sua evolu&#231;&#227;o e seu porvir.</p>
      <p>Com expressivas ilustra&#231;&#245;es, o livro apresenta-nos a import&#226;ncia da conex&#227;o da t&#233;cnica
            com o humano, da ci&#234;ncia com o relacionamento de m&#233;dicos e pacientes. <italic>&#8220;N&#227;o&#160;se
               trata ainda da anamnese. &#201; apenas a primeira abordagem para conhecer a
               pessoa&#8221;</italic>. Nesta frase, aparentemente trivial, encerram&#8209;se profundas sabedoria
            e experi&#234;ncia do profissional e professor de medicina realizando uma das grandes metas
            da universidade: propagar conhecimento para aprimoramento dos estudantes e m&#233;dicos em
            geral.</p>
      <p>Acima de tudo, a leitura convidativa nos leva a uma viagem pela hist&#243;ria das conquistas
            da ci&#234;ncia e da medicina, com seu progresso tecnol&#243;gico na compreens&#227;o das doen&#231;as e de
            seus tratamentos. </p>
      <p>Em paralelo, o livro apresenta uma an&#225;lise cr&#237;tica do nosso sistema de sa&#250;de, englobando
            a forma&#231;&#227;o, a especializa&#231;&#227;o e a atua&#231;&#227;o dos m&#233;dicos no Brasil, bem como a estrutura de
            financiamento e de atendimento, postas &#224; disposi&#231;&#227;o dos profissionais da sa&#250;de e a da
            popula&#231;&#227;o. Entre outros aspectos, &#233; interessante descobrir como a medicina requer a
            tecnologia e, ao mesmo tempo, como pode ser humanizada e aplicada de um modo sensato e
            com vis&#227;o hol&#237;stica. Por&#160;outro lado, o livro nos conduz &#224; ideia da medicina como uma
            atividade fortemente voltada ao homem como comunidade social, transitando entre o
            individual e o coletivo. Por mais que a tecnologia tenha evolu&#237;do, o&#160;homem continua
            igual e, diante da doen&#231;a, torna-se um ser aflito, angustiado e com medo. Costumo dizer
            que o oposto do medo n&#227;o &#233; a coragem; oposto do medo &#233; a f&#233;. Por isso, o m&#233;dico atua
            junto ao indiv&#237;duo como pessoa e, ao mesmo tempo, est&#225; inserido em um contexto social,
            com profundas implica&#231;&#245;es. Mostra ainda a import&#226;ncia das institui&#231;&#245;es em ensinar e
            sustentar esse caminho, com&#160;exemplos pertinentes ao nosso meio. Nesse processo, o autor
            consegue fazer com que sua experi&#234;ncia pessoal contribua para uma sabedoria
            universalista e nos conduz por esse caminho de um modo suave, mas, ao mesmo tempo,
            claro, din&#226;mico e contemplativo. Sente-se, nesses relatos, a voz de Hemingway:
               &#8220;<italic>Se queres ser universal, fala sobre tua aldeia</italic>&#8221;.</p>
      <p>O autor ainda nos d&#225; sua contribui&#231;&#227;o sobre a necessidade e a oportunidade do uso do
            m&#233;todo cient&#237;fico, do rigor no desenho, da condu&#231;&#227;o e conclus&#227;o de estudos experimentais
            e cl&#237;nicos, al&#233;m do esp&#237;rito cr&#237;tico do leitor, ao estudar artigos publicados nas
            diversas revistas m&#233;dicas. Acima de tudo, coloca-nos frente a frente com a interface
            entre o m&#233;todo cient&#237;fico acad&#234;mico e sua aplica&#231;&#227;o ao racioc&#237;nio cl&#237;nico. Ao comentar
            sobre os mestres que nortearam seu caminho, ele nos introduz a algo que s&#243; recentemente
            veio a ser denominado &#8220;medicina baseada em evid&#234;ncias&#8221;, que n&#227;o &#233; sen&#227;o a sistematiza&#231;&#227;o
            aplicada do m&#233;todo cient&#237;fico &#224; atividade m&#233;dica. Passa ao leitor sua viv&#234;ncia nos
            diversos aspectos da vida acad&#234;mica, de um modo acess&#237;vel e pertinente ao universo
            quotidiano de todos aqueles interessados em entender o fazer e o receber da medicina
            como algo entremeado na condi&#231;&#227;o humana. Sobretudo, mostra a ci&#234;ncia m&#233;dica como algo
            intuitivo e simples, n&#227;o como algo inacess&#237;vel e complicado. E, acima de tudo, de como o
            m&#233;dico deve se imergir no m&#233;todo cient&#237;fico para formar um corpo s&#243;lido de conhecimento
            com bases cartesianas, por&#233;m de um modo at&#233; mesmo humilde, sem desprezar o senso comum.
            Isso tudo cultivando a honestidade de pensamento e de a&#231;&#227;o.</p>
      <p>O livro termina com &#8220;Desafios futuros&#8221; que &#233; uma reafirma&#231;&#227;o da cren&#231;a na ess&#234;ncia
            humana da medicina&#160;&#8211; <italic>&#8220;O m&#233;dico nunca vai desaparecer...&#8221;</italic> sem perder a
            perspectiva de que a tecnologia continuar&#225; a nos fornecer modos melhores e eficazes de
            atuarmos, se mantivermos o pensamento cr&#237;tico e a mente aberta ao novo. &#201; oportuno e
            relevante analisar que <italic>&#8220;O novo n&#227;o &#233; necessariamente o melhor&#8221;</italic>, como
            didaticamente salienta o autor.</p>
      <p>&#201; um livro de especial significado para os estudantes de medicina, para os m&#233;dicos, para
            os pesquisadores, para os administradores da sa&#250;de em geral, mas, tamb&#233;m, por sua
            linguagem clara e objetiva, sem perda nenhuma de boa carga emocional, para o p&#250;blico em
            geral. Pode ser lido na ordem preferida pelo leitor, pois, embora de amplo espectro,
            todos cap&#237;tulos se completam em si mesmos e t&#234;m grande relev&#226;ncia.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Adib Domingos Jatene</bold>
      </p>
      <p>Professor Em&#233;rito da Faculdade Medicina da Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</p>
      <p>Adib Jatene (in memorian); Editorial; Ensino; Conhecimento; Docentes de Medicina;
            Dissemina&#231;&#227;o de Informa&#231;&#227;o.</p>
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