{"id":18248,"date":"2025-03-04T15:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/dr-ronald-schwartz\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:07:03","slug":"dr-ronald-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/news\/dr-ronald-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ronald Schwartz, a jornada de um m\u00e9dico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/ronald-schwartz-md\/\">Ronald Schwartz, MD<\/a> nasceu e cresceu em Fall River, Massachusetts. Desde muito jovem, sentiu-se atra\u00eddo pela ci\u00eancia de uma forma pr\u00e1tica, fascinado pela sua capacidade de explicar o mundo que o rodeava. Os seus pais trabalhavam nas f\u00e1bricas de Fall River e incutiram-lhe os valores da perseveran\u00e7a, do trabalho \u00e1rduo e da determina\u00e7\u00e3o, incentivando-o a prosseguir os estudos superiores. Concluiu o ensino secund\u00e1rio na B.M.C Durfee High School e foi o primeiro da sua fam\u00edlia a frequentar a faculdade, na Universidade de Brown, sendo depois aceite na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Boston, um feito que definiu o rumo do seu futuro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durante a faculdade de medicina, surgiram dificuldades financeiras e, querendo casar com o amor da sua vida, Carol Krasnow, optou por se alistar na Marinha dos Estados Unidos, que financiou a sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00e9dica. Albans, em Queens, Nova Iorque, onde a sua dedica\u00e7\u00e3o e compet\u00eancia lhe valeram o cargo de Chefe de Resid\u00eancia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Guerra do Vietname levou-o a ser destacado para o Hospital Naval dos EUA em Guam, na Micron\u00e9sia, onde tratou de feridos e doentes das For\u00e7as Armadas dos EUA do Sudeste Asi\u00e1tico. A experi\u00eancia refor\u00e7ou a sua convic\u00e7\u00e3o de que a guerra acelera os conhecimentos m\u00e9dicos - exigindo uma r\u00e1pida adapta\u00e7\u00e3o a um elevado volume de doentes, aperfei\u00e7oando as capacidades de defini\u00e7\u00e3o de prioridades e aperfei\u00e7oando as t\u00e9cnicas de gest\u00e3o. Foi ent\u00e3o transferido para o Hospital Naval dos EUA em Chelsea, MA, e promovido a Comandante e tamb\u00e9m a Chefe de Medicina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O lar nunca esteve longe do seu cora\u00e7\u00e3o. Um convite de um m\u00e9dico local (Dr. David Greer que praticou na Cl\u00ednica Truesdale, tornou-se o Reitor da Faculdade de Medicina de Brown e ganhou o Pr\u00e9mio Nobel da Paz em 1985) encorajou-o a regressar \u00e0s suas ra\u00edzes e a passar a maior parte da sua carreira a servir a comunidade da Grande Fall River. O Dr. Schwartz sabia que tinha de abra\u00e7ar esta oportunidade e trouxe a sua riqueza de experi\u00eancia e conhecimento de volta para onde tudo come\u00e7ou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ao longo dos anos, para al\u00e9m da sua pr\u00e1tica cl\u00ednica como prestador de cuidados prim\u00e1rios, teve tamb\u00e9m o privil\u00e9gio de formar as futuras gera\u00e7\u00f5es de prestadores de cuidados como professor assistente cl\u00ednico na Brown University em Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Dr. Schwartz incentiva os estudantes de medicina a mudarem a sua perspetiva - de inicialmente procurarem ansiosamente encontrar algo de errado com um doente para, com o tempo, esperarem n\u00e3o encontrar nada de errado. Aconselha-os a n\u00e3o deixarem que as press\u00f5es externas os desgastem, recordando-lhes que a medicina, apesar dos seus desafios, continua a ser uma das profiss\u00f5es mais gratificantes. Como m\u00e9dicos, tornar-se-\u00e3o confidentes, curandeiros e navegadores na vida dos seus doentes - pap\u00e9is que acarretam uma imensa responsabilidade, uma profunda realiza\u00e7\u00e3o e desempenham um papel fundamental na sociedade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olhando para tr\u00e1s, o Dr. Schwartz acredita que a especializa\u00e7\u00e3o em cuidados prim\u00e1rios lhe deu o privil\u00e9gio de fazer uma diferen\u00e7a real na vida dos seus pacientes todos os dias. Quer esteja a diagnosticar uma doen\u00e7a, a prestar cuidados preventivos, ou simplesmente a oferecer um ouvido atento, ele compreende que este papel vai muito al\u00e9m do tratamento de condi\u00e7\u00f5es m\u00e9dicas. Atrav\u00e9s dos seus doentes, aprendeu li\u00e7\u00f5es sobre resili\u00eancia, compaix\u00e3o e o poder da liga\u00e7\u00e3o humana.  Estas experi\u00eancias moldaram n\u00e3o s\u00f3 a sua abordagem \u00e0 medicina, mas tamb\u00e9m a sua perspetiva de vida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":18249,"template":"","categories":[1230],"class_list":["post-18248","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Ronald Schwartz, a Physician\u2019s Journey - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ronald Schwartz, MD was born and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. 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