Dra. Yolanda Meije: “We like a challenge”
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Dra. Yolanda Meije: “We like a challenge”
The head of the Barcelona Hospital Internal Medicine Service has a degree in Medicine and Surgery, specialising in internal medicine and infectious diseases. As well as her medical and surgical degree, she also has a Master’s in infectious diseases. She has worked and conducted research at the 12 de Octubre, Ramón y Cajal and Vall d’Hebron Hospitals. She was also a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, and an aid worker in Cameroon. Her teaching and scientific activities have been in the area of infectious pathology. She is an expert in mycobacteria, infection in patients undergoing immunosuppressant treatment, fungal infection and endocarditis.
She is an expert in mycobacteria, infection in patients undergoing immunosuppressant treatment, fungal infection and endocarditis.
What areas do you think have evolved at the Barcelona Hospital Internal Medicine Service?
I think that over the years, the Internal Medicine Service (SMI) at Barcelona Hospital has become a service with a very high level of human and professional qualites. It is a service that is very clear about the fact that patients come first and where we love what we do which is essential.
Dr Martínez-Montauti, the head of the service for all these years, always told us to research our patients’ diagnoses in depth, always to maintain our medical curiosity and if anything didn’t strike us as quite right, to keep examining until we got to the bottom of it. As a service we like a challenge, complex diagnoses and enjoy teamwork and a job well done.
I also think there has been an evolution towards subspecialisation with areas of expertise being developed within the team. That is something that I think benefits doctor and patient. The more we play a lead role in our own areas of knowledge, the more we can offer to our patients and the hospital.
What distinguishes the Internal Medicine Service at Barcelona Hospital from other hospitals?
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