Sawubona reprise: reflections on the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Presidential Address 2022

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Alessandro Brunelli, St. James’s University Hospital; Amerikos Argyriou, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK; Hasan Batirel, Biruni University; Yolonda Colson, Massachusetts General Hospital; Gail Darling, Dalhousie University; Felix Fernandez, Emory University; Michael Gooseman, University of Hull; Toni Lerut, University Hospital Leuven; Daniela Molena, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Nuria Novoa, Salamanca University Hospital; Isabelle Opitz, University Hospital Zurich; Kostas Papagiannopoulos, St. James’s University Hospital; Alexander G Patterson, Washington University School, St. Louis; Rene H Petersen, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet; Janette Rawlinson, European Lung Foundation Lung Cancer Patient Advisory Group; Gaetano Rocco, Mem Sloan Kettering Canc Ctr; Brendon M Stiles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Javeria Tariq, University of Leeds; Gonzalo Varela, Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL) Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-12-07
• Publisher: AME PUBLISHING COMPANY
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: 2023 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-1550
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Start Page: 204
• End Page: 213
• Grant/Funding Information: None
• Keywords: vulnerability; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Empathy; patients; EMPATHY; thoracic surgery; Respiratory System; Science & Technology; lung cancer; connection
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery; Health Sciences, Oncology

Abstract

On the 20th June 2022 I had the privilege of a lifetime to deliver the Presidential Address at the 30th ESTS Annual Meeting (1). Despite it took me nearly two years to conceive and prepare the talk, I never had any doubt on the choice of the topic because this represents very well the core of our profession: connecting with the suffering person in front of us and trying to help them navigating through their most vulnerable time in life. The following is the link to the recording of the talk: https://youtu.be/ZBE6CcSPxYM.