Hektoen International

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    LATIN AMERICA Published in September, 2019 H E K T O R A M A   . AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDICAL PIONEERS The first hospital in the Americas was built by Fray Nicolás de Ovando from 1503 to 1508 in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti). Named Hospital de San Nicolás de Bari (I), it was located in…

  • A lesson in horizontality: El Hospital San Vicente de Paúl in Medellin, Colombia

    Moisés EnghelbergNew York, United States This is not the story about another hospital, rebuilt from rubble after an earthquake. It is not even a story about perseverance, as much as it is about putting the pieces back together. It is also a story about peculiarity and geometry. The Hospital San Vicente de Paúl in Medellin,…

  • Osteopathic medicine, touch and psychoanalysis: At a new crossroad

    Moises EnghelbergNew York, United States Space As a point of departure is the notion of space and the value given to personal space in therapy. Space, the dialectic force by which touch and closeness is defined, functions in therapy as a sort of barrier between two individuals and allows the physician to maintain distance, but…