“The objective I set with the book is to spread health information using humor as a fundamental resource.”

This week our interviewee is the doctor, theater lover and writer Fernando Fabiani (Sevilla, 1975). Fabiani's passion for theater from a young age led him to the White Fathers theater school.. Later he would found the company EdeTeatro with José Luis Losa. In addition, He is the director of Clown Syndrome, with which he won the Audience Award for Best Show at FeSt with the play Better… is it possible. After the publishing success of his book I come without an appointment (Aguilar), a little over a year ago, come back with I come from the emergency room (Aguilar), why we asked. GINÉS J. VERA.

In his book there are continuous nods to brands and television characters, some for those over thirty, Well, we read about Mr. Barragán, the eagle's winston, Kennedy, Karpov vs. Kasparov, or Around the World by Willy Fog… Those of us who are almost forty surely have more than one smile?, actually many because the comparisons are very witty and fun.
It is inevitable to make these winks. Let's not forget that Teo, the protagonist, has 42 years and cannot help but draw comparisons with these characters of his time. Besides, although I tried to help Teo look for more current examples, Those didn't seem so illuminating to me.. It must be because we share a generation...

“Having to attend to 'false emergencies', often, delays attention to real emergencies”, We read, which I imagine is also one of the reasons that led you to write this book: disseminate and raise awareness of a reality that affects us all, even if it's in a humorous way.
Indeed. If I had to define in one sentence the objective I set with the book is to do health dissemination using humor as a fundamental resource.. Among the multiple messages contained in these pages is undoubtedly the need to use emergency services with solidarity.: if we use them inappropriately by abusing them, we harm those who really need it.

It is not necessary to give all patients a good look (alcohol poisoning) in the emergency room an injection of vitamin B. Something curious. I think it's another of those clichés that need to be broken, like giving iron to pregnant women or giving sugar to someone we see fainted... Am I on the right track??
If there is something I especially like, it is debunking myths or erroneous beliefs in health that lead patients to act inappropriately or have unjustified fear.. That's why, both in the book and in the videos that I spread on social networks (“I couldn't help it…”) those types of messages abound: Colds do not go down to the chest, “principles of” do not exist, omeprazole is not a stomach protector, no need to drink 2 liters of water per day…

Ask him about that wink?? of its protagonist, Teo, to the town (real) where he spends his summer in the province of Soria. I think the number of tourist visits will increase this summer... and the number of outpatient consultations (here I catch you, here I kill you) if you see Teo there.
It is a gift to have the opportunity to quote Barahona, that little one (but very big) Soriano town that welcomes me every year and makes me feel at home. If visits increase... we'll see you there!. I already notice that, in the month of August, we are at parties!.

To finish, Tell us about the two interesting annexes you have included, logically, At the end of the book.
One of them seemed essential to me. people live (mistakenly) hooked to the blood pressure monitor and, how do I explain, you don't have to have so much tension with the tension. Yes anyway, on some occasion we must measure it, It doesn't hurt that they explain to us how it should be done correctly and step by step.. Yes indeed, counting with humor. The second annex puts its finger on a common error in medical reports. There is a lot of talk about the problems of our “bad handwriting”, but that can be fixed using the computer. What is not so easily fixed is the abusive use of acronyms and abbreviations with which we fill out these reports and which makes it almost impossible to understand them.. There I leave you a small Rosetta stone to decipher them...

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