Elementos para comprender la discriminación y agresiones en contra de personal sanitario durante la pandemia de COVID-19 / Elements to understand acts of aggression and discrimination towards the healthcare personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resumen A raíz de la pandemia de COVID-19 provocada por el SARS-CoV 2, en tan solo seis meses de su existencia se han adoptado distintas medidas de protección y atención a la población mundial. Los trabajadores de la salud han realizado grandes esfuerzos para combatir la enfermedad a nivel hospitalario. De forma paradójica, se han identificado actos de discriminación y agresión en contra del personal sanitario, que incluyen la negación de servicios, amenazas, daño físico y patrimonial, principalmente. El propósito de este trabajo es describir algunos elementos que permitan comprender el comportamiento social de discriminación que sufren los trabajadores sanitarios. Se describe el estado de la salud mental en la población general y del personal intrahospitalario durante la pandemia, así como los antecedentes de agresiones al personal de salud previos a esta condición, que permiten tener un panorama general desde distintas perspectivas, con el fin de establecer lineamientos generales útiles para su prevención.

Abstract Within six months only of its existence as result of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 caused by the SARSCoV2, various safety measures have been applied in order to offer both protection and attention to the worldwide population. Healthcare professionals have been making great efforts to fight the disease on a hospital care level but paradoxically, acts of aggressive discrimination have been presented towards the health personnel, which mainly include: denying services, threats, and physical damage as well as patrimonial. This paper's purpose is to describe some of the elements that help understand the mass social discriminative behaviour showing up towards healthcare workers. Healthcare personnel and general population's mental health states during this pandemic are both described, as well as background checks of aggression towards healthcare workers predating the present pandemic, allowing a bigger picture to be examined, with the intention of establishing new general guidelines to prevent future acts of discrimination.

The painter from Sinaloa: artistic analysis of a case of spatial agnosia and neglect of visual shapes.

Paintings produced spontaneously by patients with neurological lesions represent a fascinating opportunity to analyze some aspects of the underlying disease and involved brain mechanisms. Many cases of artists who have suffered spatial neglect following a neurological disease have been reported in the literature. However, only a few studies evaluating the different subtypes of graphic neglect and aspects related to the construction of perspective (three dimensionality) in works of art have been published. In the present article, we present the case of an artist who, after resection of a central neurocytoma that affected the right thalamo-parietal connections, suffered an impairment of the ability to create perspective in his paintings and involuntary omission of only shapes in the left side of his paintings, although colors and contours were preserved.

[First Mexican consensus on recommendations of the multidisciplinary care of patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM): Mexican Interdisciplinary Group on Neuro-Oncology Research (GIMINO)]. / Primer consenso mexicano sobre recomendaciones de la atención multidisciplinaria del paciente con glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Grupo Interdisciplinar Mexicano de Investigación en Neurooncología (GIMINO).

Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most aggressive central nervous system tumors and with worse prognosis. Until now,treatments have managed to significantly increase the survival of these patients, depending on age, cognitive status, and autonomy of the individuals themselves. Based on these parameters, both initial or recurrence treatments are performed, as well as monitoring of disease by imaging studies. When the patient enters the terminal phase and curative treatments are suspended, respect for the previous wishes of the patient and development and implementation of palliative therapies must be guaranteed.