Acompañar a los enfermos en la antesala del final de su ciclo vital

Abstract

Objective. Perform an ethnography, palliative unit, to study the interactions of the actors, in particular that of doctors with patients, who are living this particular situation of transit to death; and the opinion of those on palliative care. Methodology. The paradigm that we ascribe is the qualitative, ontologically constructivist and epistemologically, from the point of view of the sociologies of life, still our method of Ethnography. Results. From the speech, mostly from interviews with doctors have been collected verbatim. Conclusions. Among other things, on the stage, a microspace within the Hospitalito, called care media unit, represents going back at other times the dichotomy thesis/antithesis, the thesis that it was a unit that it had formally inaugurated as a palliative unit, we assume that with a propaganda purpose, but the antithesis was the reality, and this was without a doubt that he was still a unit of care means.