Arts play an important role for those who face the disease, but also in preventing and training health staff. More and more scientists are looking at the connections between beauty and physical and mental well. In the interview with Fabrizio Consort, the doctor and head of the “Culture” committee are revealed, the close relationship between technical expressions, medicine and patients’ condition
Eugenio Moral – the Vatican city
“For patients, being in a beautiful environment is good. It is good nervously that beauty is good.” Fabrizio Consort, a former general surgery professor of “La Sapinza” University in Rome, is witnessing the benefits of cultural expressions in patients for a long time. But it is not the only one.
In 2019, the World Health Organization published a very rich report on the impact of the arts on the well.
A unified vision for the person
Pope Francis has already confirmed last January, in his message to the International Day of the Patient in XXXIII, a human aspect of assistance places:
The places that people suffer from are often in places to participate, where we enrich each other. How many times, next to the patient’s bed, learn to wait! How many times, be close to those who suffer, learn to believe! How many times, tends to the needy, love is discovered!
A global view of the sick person, a approach in all its dimensions. “In a unified vision of the human person, there is no separation between reason, body, spirit, and the network of relationships that compensate for existence,” notes.
The “Culture is Health” project
Humanity of places of assistance and added value represented by the arts, literature, music, cinema, theater and dance for treatment and rehabilitation are the nucleus of projects implemented by the committee.
“We have put more than a hundred associations and institutions on a network with the hypothesis that the cultural goodness, with all its expressions, enhances health. We also do joint work in January of last year in a great place, which is Sixtinos from the hospital The Holy Spirit in Sassia“.
Carry the appointment is an important title for Miguel Angel effect. Art is an effect and a tool for self -care and care for others. And wandering around the association’s gate, there are many initiatives that are seen in creativity as a therapeutic tool. Other proposals are linked to books and watch small libraries and places appropriate to read in care environments. Punto Digital also provides patients with access to digital book loan service.
The clinic as a “meager” service for patients
Hope The condition without it is not To achieve recovery. This hope is mainly nourished through the relationship of trust between the therapist and treatment. “Confidence is designed that what you do is useful to you,” says Consorty.
The doctor, who firmly believes in the power of culture, is so that he also participates as president The work of promoting knowledge of reading and writing in the worldAnd it also has a very clear vision of the concept of service that should direct those intended for the care of others:
“I used to remember my students that the word” clinic “comes from the Greek action” Klinomai “, which means” lean “, so it is to bend in front of the patient, which is the highest form of service that one can do. That is why it is nice to celebrate the jubilee one day for all who are in the case of patients, especially records, who become part of your existence that you must live. “
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