[Meanings of the medical profession from the ideology of medical professionals].

This article deals with the ideology of medical professionals in order to understand the meanings attributed to their profession, taking Thompson's theory as a starting point and centering on the categories of autonomy, norms and values, and social recognition. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with medical professionals in Amecameca, a municipality in the State of Mexico, from March to October 2019, in four sectors of service provision: public institutional, private institutional, private practice, and mixed practice. The analysis of meanings expressed by medical professionals with respect to each category of interest reveals that medical professionals are conditioned by the structure of state control and by the commodified economy, where private forms of medical practice are more highly regarded.

Medical consultation, time and duration.

This essay is a reflection of the time and duration of the medical consultation, seen as a social process that is determined by macro structures following the productive logic and the demands of modern time. The length of the medical discussion is heterogeneous worldwide; in contrast, what is standard is the perception of the professionals and the patients that the time for interaction is short. Such a perception pervades the doctor-patient relationship, perpetuating a cycle of dissatisfaction-tension-anxiety in these actors.

The feeding-nutrition connection, three aspects for its understanding.

Feeding is not an isolated concept; it is linked to biological, psychological, cultural, political and economic determinants. Physiologically the meeting of the biological need is very important, but when a group is subjected to a diet that only satisfies hunger and does not provide for nutrients, chronic deficient nutritional stages appear that impact social welfare and health. In this paper, we present three instances of nutritional problems that affect the Mexican population: child malnourishment, obesity and food security.

Violence in Mexico: A social or public health problem?

This article seeks to explain the importance of violence as a social phenomenon and public health, trying to envision this issue not only from a curative approach to health, but from the social determinants of health, such as economics, politics and the administration of justice. Here, the younger population lacks real opportunities with an “absent State” that fails to provide structure. These frameworks play a fundamental role in the manifestation of violence.

[Stock based medicine: the patient waiting in a weary medical procedure].

This essay attempts to bring on a new perspective for healthcare professionals regarding the problems that surround this institutionalized profession, based on a system of stock balances and not on the real needs of patients and their community. The healthcare professional not only engages in biomedical healing but also possesses knowledge and expertise regarding the dialectical process of health/disease. Thus, his or her practice and actions should be centered on social practices and not just the healing process.

[Family medicine and practice in the Mexican Social Security Institute].

The central ideas of this research paper are related to the practice of family medicine as a specialty. It focuses in its origins, problems, unique characteristics, limitations, scope, management, and processes within the context of primary care of the Mexican Social Security System. This approach was based on a qualitative, hermeneutical study closely related to the Structural Functionalism Theory.

[Clinical experience with a C-section surgical technique in patients with morbid obesity: a case series].

Obesity is a public health challenge that has crossed into the area of reproductive health. An obese pregnant woman has multiple complications before, during, and after pregnancy. Likewise, cesarean section is more difficult and has slower recovery times in this group of patients.

[Ultrasound use in the first three-month period of pregnancy. 10 basic directions].

The aim of this paper is to provide the directions for the ultrasound study use and the understanding to make useful it in the first three months of pregnancy. We intend to do ten easy recommendations: pregnancy diagnosis confirmations, the localization of gestational sac, to check the viability of pregnancy, checking the fetal vitality, identify risk factors of miscarriage, to settle number of fetus and gestational age, look for uterine and ovary disturbances and the recognition of aneuploidy. Then after, based on the ultrasound diagnosis features you must decide the medical following of pregnancy.

[Fetal hydrops diagnosed by ultrasonographics images. A case report].

We reported a non-immune case of fetal hydrops diagnosed at the 15th week of pregnancy with ultrasonographic images. Follow-up was made but the death in utero occurred at the week 16. The treatment with the induct conduction labor was carrying out and finally an abortion was performed.

[Clinical and therapeutic approach to Klippel-Feil syndrome in the primary care medicine].

A case of Klippel-Feil syndrome in a female nine years is informed. The patient presented a clinical picture compatible with Klippel-Feil syndrome: short neck with joint movements diminished and low hair implantation. We showed the diagnostics and treatment approach at the primary medicine level, the follow-up until the presence of clinical manifestations of the main clinical problems associated.