Healthcare Magazine June 2015 | Page 52

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Human resources of the Shaio Clinic Department of Haemodynamics

“ Our patients don ’ t come to a single physician but they come to a group of specialists who follow a single operating procedure .””

– Gilberto Mejía , Scientific Director of
Fundación Clínica Shaio
in research and education . We have partnerships with more than 18 universities which we help educate a variety of health care professionals ,” added the director .
This institution is also innovative in how it cares for and relieves patients . While at a conventional clinic the patient faces his physician alone , and by turn , the physician faces her patient alone , at Shaio they practice a “ group ” medicine .
“ Another differentiator is that the treatment of cardiovascular illness is treated as a group . It ’ s not one specialist who cares for a patient . Instead , a group does it . The group follows one standard operating procedure . Our patients don ’ t come to a single physician but they come to a
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