With his XplicaMed project, Dr. Fernando Marcial seeks that patients, by better understanding what happens in their body with diseases, have a greater commitment to take care of themselves and follow their treatments.
For Dr. Fernando Marcial, distrust in medical diagnoses is an attitude present in many people. The infrequency with which the symptoms of some diseases occur, he explains, makes patients doubt the condition and, therefore, they do not give the necessary importance to the suggested treatment.
If patients understood what happens in their body with each disease, they would have a greater commitment to taking care of themselves, says the doctor. “Throughout my clinical experience, I have realized that the patient has more confidence in a doctor who is not just that entity with a white coat that fills a prescription. […] but the one who takes the time to explain.
Thus, with the purpose of generating greater confidence in medicine, and so that patients, together with doctors, are part of the team that takes care of their health, Marcial created Xplicamed, a project with which, through videos and podcasts, he published on various digital platforms. how Youtube the Facebook– seeks to explain various medical and health issues (general), in an entertaining way.
However, so far, only questions about the COVID-19 pandemic have been addressed: how can people get infected, what is a pandemic or what is the risk of using some remedies against the disease.
The speed with which new news (even false) appears about the pandemic led Marcial to modify his content plan, but keeping in his videos the essence of his project, that is, the explanatory part of medicine; for example, in one of them he talks about how a virus like SARS-Cov-2 acts in the human body.
“The idea is to explain what they are about [ciertas] diseases […] so that patients understand the diagnosis and the importance of their treatments. Xplicamed arises to have a content that can be consulted by patients, in which there is clear and precise information about their diseases ”.
In his project, Marcial calls himself Doctor Xplica, inspired by the Captain disappointment, an audiovisual producer who explains on his YouTube channel how some videos that circulate on the internet are made, and also influenced by Beakman, a character who explains scientific topics for children in his program. “I thought it would be a good idea to follow these concepts but with medical problems,” says the doctor.