Macedo G, Silva M. Gastroenterology, hepatology and movies: A holistic insight. World J Gastrointest Pharmacol Ther 2016; 7(4): 584-586 [PMID: 27867693 DOI: 10.4292/wjgpt.v7.i4.584]
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Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD, WGO, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD, Former President of the Portuguese Association For the Study of the Liver, Gastroenterology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal. guilhermemacedo59@gmail.com
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World J Gastrointest Pharmacol Ther. Nov 6, 2016; 7(4): 584-586 Published online Nov 6, 2016. doi: 10.4292/wjgpt.v7.i4.584
Gastroenterology, hepatology and movies: A holistic insight
Guilherme Macedo, Marco Silva
Guilherme Macedo, Marco Silva, Gastroenterology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
Author contributions: Macedo G contributed to study concept and design and drafting of the manuscript; Silva M contributed to drafting of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Nothing to declare.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Guilherme Macedo, MD, PhD, WGO, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD, Former President of the Portuguese Association For the Study of the Liver, Gastroenterology Department, Centro Hospitalar São João, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Alameda Professor Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal. guilhermemacedo59@gmail.com
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Received: April 29, 2016 Peer-review started: April 29, 2016 First decision: July 5, 2016 Revised: September 5, 2016 Accepted: September 21, 2016 Article in press: September 23, 2016 Published online: November 6, 2016
Abstract
The Project “Movies and Health in Night talks” took place in Braga and Porto, northern Portugal, in the last 3 years. This Project demonstrated how medical knowledge may surround and integrate a cosmopolitan and holistic approach, so that we as doctors and the general public, are able to become much closer and much more prone to understand the vital cycles of our society.
Core tip: The Project “Movies and Health in Night talks”, conceived and produced through the chisel of a Gastroenterologist, clearly demonstrated how medical knowledge may surround and integrate a cosmopolitan and holistic approach, so that we as doctors and the general public, are able to become much closer and much more prone to understand the vital cycles of our society. Throughout those lively nights, many brilliant remarks were brought up, unexpected comments, unengaged points of view largely discussed, almost in a libertarian atmosphere, addressing the main topics that different experts and public figures were invited to dissect, about some of the most emblematic movies from the last decades. It is our firm believe that one of Hepatologists still unexplored noble tasks is to promote an anthropologic way of addressing and solving gastrointestinal and liver diseases burden.
