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Professor Rafael Carmena today defended the need to keep in touch with patients, to the "spectacular technological development applied to Medicine", during a ceremony in which he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Murcia.

For this new honorary doctor, "we should avoid the technology, which is a must, interfere with the other aspect of our profession, which is the human contact with the sick", so has appealed to combine the two aspects.

In his inaugural address, Carmena, who was a professor at the University of Valencia until his retirement in 2010, and previously, of the University of Murcia, has said that "I am concerned that young intelligent, coming to school with a predisposition admirable and authentic clinical vocation, mold their expectations with increasingly ambitious goals. "

This professor has called teamwork to highlight that "future doctors must quickly grasp the need for interdisciplinary collaboration, linking basic research with clinical practice."

Neither has forgotten to note that "physicians need to know to convey empathy with the sufferer, inspiring confidence and optimism, the doctor's personality, today as yesterday, still healing abilities."

At another point in his speech has rejected what he called "a fragmented care" for her to understand that "the patient does not really know who your doctor, who is responsible to take care and make decisions."

For his part, Professor Francisco Javier Masso Tébar, which highlighted the merits of Rafael Carmena for his inauguration and said that "it is common to find people so involved with university teaching as he" also remember that he joined the University Murcia in 1975, to stay in the same until 1982, when he took over as professor at Valencia.

At the ceremony, held in the hospital "Virgen de la Arrixaca" of Murcia, spoke also the rector of the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo, who noted that the recognition of the merits of Professor Carmena is also a pride for their university .

Morcillo, highlighting the value of the new honorary doctor-who is professor emeritus at the University of Valencia, recalled that a decade ago was awarded the prestigious King James I in the section of Clinical Medicine.

Finally, the rector of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cobacho, highlighted the history of the Faculty of Medicine of the same and the prominent presence they had in their first steps Valencian several professors and researchers.

The participants have had words of remembrance for the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Murcia, Lorenzo Abad, who died last Tuesday.

Source: Universidad de Murcia