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.
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To explain the problems, Marcial uses some visual resources, such as some “inventions”, for example, a control that says when the pandemic will end (“Never!”, Responds sarcastically to the control), and makes analogies with common objects so that the theme is clearer.
“I usually use these analogies: that if the heart and circulatory system are a pipe, think of tubes, hoses, the water tank at home, things that people can relate to and it is easy to understand. [la enfermedad o la reacción en el organismo]”.
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The arrival of the pandemic, Marcial also points out, caused him to momentarily pause the podcast format he wanted to use, but there are already some episodes prepared on topics not related to the pandemic, ready to be recorded and edited. One of them, for example, deals with homeostasis, the natural balance that the human body seeks when it is subjected to external factors, such as heat and cold.
“When you get angry, your body reacts. It’s hot: you sweat to lower the temperature. It’s cold: you start to shiver to generate heat. Looking for this midpoint is a constant in the body, ”explains Marcial about this phenomenon that, he says, often goes unnoticed.
Xplicamed emerged at the end of January this year and has received good feedback. Fernando Marcial assures that soon he will produce content in the Zapotec language, on various medical topics, so that the content reaches the indigenous populations, especially Juchitán, Oaxaca, where it originates.
The project, says the doctor, invites people to express their doubts through their social networks, so that Doctor Xplica can give them an answer. So if you have any doubts, give Click here be resolved.
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