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#Dra. Valderês A. Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)
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#O Discurso Médico
Texto que escrevi para apresentação na Academia Sul Rio-grandense de Medicina, na década de noventa. Pretendo ainda revê-lo criticamente, mas me parece que reúne vários conceitos importantes. Ficariam ainda mais valorizados se mais alguns amigos se apresentassem para comentá-los
#Centro Cultural e Histórico da anta Casa
#Guerra NuclearPrescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness
“How close we came to extinction, and it is forgotten now.” So begins Nobel Prize-winner Bernard Lown’s story of his fight against the nuclear symptom of what he calls “the disease of militarism.” It is still active and highly contagious, as witnessed by events in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, and all too many other places. And it can only be stopped, as this extraordinary memoir vividly demonstrates, by concerned citizens working together. In 1981, brimming with anxiety about the escalating nuclear confrontation with the Russians, Lown launched a USA-USSR antinuclear movement with Soviet cardiologist Evgeni Chazov: The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Over the next four years Lown and Chazov recruited more than 150,000 doctors worldwide to join their movement, held international conferences that included U. S. and Russian military leaders, met with numerous world political leaders, and appeared on television programs broadcast throughout the USSR and the U. S. In 1985, despite active opposition from the U. S. government and NATO, Lown and Chazov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. This dramatic story is told with a vibrancy of language that illuminates dramatic scenes such as Lown convincing King Hussein of Jordan to join the anti-nuclear struggle during a medical exam, the heart attack of a Russian journalist at an IPPNW press conference, and Lown’s face-to-face conversations with Gorbachev. Although this book is concerned with a potential clash of superpowers, Lown writes, “At the heart of these cascading events is a human narrative.” “Historical amnesia is a prelude for repeated victimization,” Lown says. Prescription for Survival probes the past to help us understand what drove, and continues to drive, nuclear proliferation, and offers a blueprint showing how we can join together across national boundaries to end it.
Wolf said Lown taught prospective physicians “not just to provide technical care” but to “really care about [patients] as human beings.”
Lown also believed it was important to encourage young physicians to be involved in social activism.
In a 1990 discussion at Harvard Medical School, Lown told future doctors they had a responsibility to be vigilant of nuclear war.
“We doctors have an enormous responsibility to heal humankind,” Lown said. “I believe that each of you has the capability to prevent nuclear war by not being afraid of social involvement.”
Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja: Livro do B.Lown sobre o tema da guerra nuclear
#JAMA
JAMA. Published online March 4, 2022. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.21019
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