It is the absence of the line drawn on the floor, which does not point to the limit where one should go, that fascinates us.
Often fear comes and one does not cross the border, safeguarding comfort, the safe self, perhaps the selfish self. Dangerous ego that betrays a person or an entire group.
What makes man cross the line of risk to reach others? What drives the aid instinct that overrides that of survival itself?
What is the boundary between the individual being and the self in the collective?
This month we speak about Without Borders, about people who do not establish borders to help others, who are a mixture of origins, who criticise laughing but without offending others, about the Beyond Borders, when international landmarks are reached, not for the ego, but for all.
Inevitably, we speak of Fernando de La Vieter Noble, President and Founder of AMI 35 years ago, Professor of Humanitarian Medicine at FMUL, and for whom we waited months before we could talk.
We also waited for Sebastião Martins, a recent graduate, who has just completed year 6 of the MIM, who met us after his 2-month mission to Greece to take care of refugees.
Caring seems like an old and intrinsic formula in so many of the students who have already been part of this school and changed the course of history, saving lives during the floods in Lisbon in November 1967.
Lacking the fear of the border, all these names would have to be our protagonists of the month. A month that starts with change and with a clean face, with a team that constantly seeks to understand the role of others, the origin of all.
The surname Stosberg comes from her paternal family from Germany. Our Victoria is another of the protagonists of the institutional video, and she is the symbol that, in the mix of origins, it is the broken borders that generate the best in humanity.
And are there boundaries when we talk about humour? That's what we asked Daniel Cazeiro, general coordinator of the 2019 Medical Evening.
Beyond Borders lies also an extraordinary article, published in Jama Neurology, one of the most impactful scientific journals, by a group Patricia Faustino, a Master degree student at FMUL, is part of. It explains the likelihood that a bipolar and medicated person will have Parkinson's. Find out the explanation for the reason this can happen.
To all medical students, this month we present the new faces of AIMS. They intend to bring world knowledge together, bringing to Portugal some of the countries that are at the top of research, technology and science. Driven by a desire to make science one place, they promise to break all borders.
Board with us on a flight where we talk about the power of decision and leadership through a talk with TAP Captain Armindo Martins. It is only when the boundaries of uncertainty are crossed that merits are achieved, which translate into everyone's success.
Take the case of Professor Helena Cortez-Pinto, recently elected vice president of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG), or our Nutrition Lab, winner of the 2nd EU Health Award, with the Sintra Grows Healthy project.
We are in the world and it is before it that we look to all sides, uniting more and more cultures, or recovering origins from times past. That is why FMUL Director Fausto J. Pinto was present at a very important ceremony in Macao.
We have entered a new cycle. Because we have just changed, with beacons of expression and a balance of respect for living with everyone
Follow us now with your eyes and read us, Without Borders, because that is how we listened to and received all our "guests", all these changes.
New newsletter, new life!
Joana Sousa
Editorial Team
news@medicina.ulisboa.pt
