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AMHE Newsletter Haitian Medical Association Abroad Association Medicale Haïtienne à l'Étranger AMHE NEWSLETTER Editor in Chief: Maxime J-M Coles, MD Editorial Board: Rony Jean Mary, MD Reynald Altema, MD Technical Adviser: Jacques Arpin Words of the Editor in Chief: - Le pouvoir lui est monté à la tête. Aldy Castor, M.D., - Corner of Traveller:Odler Jeanlouie MD - Rapport de la célébration du Jubilé de la classe de 68, FMH - Sickle cell Clinic in Leogane - ANNONCE FUNERAIRE - Upcoming Events - And more... fall 2018 october 29 Newsletter # 241 science which refine itself to a point that Medicine is becoming a combination of Art and Science. The content of the medical knowledge, the tools used for medical investigations and even the details of medical treatments become refined. Let us re- visit some of the breakthroughs that have permitted physicians and healers to save life over the centuries. Not much is known about our Neolithic ancestors, but we discovered that they were able to perform dentistry using flint tipped drills and bowstrings. Timothy Darvill and Geoff Wainwright, both British archeologists, believe Stonehenge in Southern England was the equivalent of Lourdes, a place which attracted healers and medicine men, a place where the sick looked for healing. Many during the years may have settled their permanent bases to provide care to the sick. According to the Rigveda, an ancient Hindu text, a warrior queen named Vishpala, believed to be a rejected princess, received the first prosthetic leg, an iron leg, around the 12 th century (1500-1200 BC). The leg was donated by the Ashwin’s, horse headed twin gods who fly around in a gold chariot, handing presents and healing the sick. The Ashwin’s reminded the modern Santa Claus. Alcmaeon of Croton is described as one of the most eminent philosophers and scientist of all time. He was referred as a thinker of a considerable originality. He made the difference between veins and arteries, in 500 BC. He is called by many, the father of Neuroscience. More, he was considered as a pioneer and an advocate of anatomical dissection of animal and human bodies. An Italian monk, Salvino D’Armate of Florence (1258-1312) was credited for the invention of the first wearable pair of glasses; They were convex lens Advances in the Medical field. Is Medicine an Art or a Science? For us physicians, Medicine is the science which allow us to diagnose, treat as well as prevent diseases. Centuries from the medieval times to the present, has bought different aspects of a

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AMHE Newsletter Haitian Medical Association Abroad

Association Medicale Haïtienne à l'Étranger

AMHE NEWSLETTER

Editor in Chief: Maxime J-M Coles, MD

Editorial Board: Rony Jean Mary, MD

Reynald Altema, MD

Technical Adviser: Jacques Arpin

Words of the Editor in Chief:

- Le pouvoir lui est monté à la tête. Aldy Castor, M.D.,

- Corner of Traveller:Odler Jeanlouie MD

- Rapport de la célébration du Jubilé de la classe de 68, FMH

- Sickle cell Clinic in Leogane

- ANNONCE FUNERAIRE

- Upcoming Events

- And more...

fall 2018

october 29

Newsletter # 241

science which refine itself to a point that Medicine is becoming a combination of Art and Science. The content of the medical knowledge, the tools used for medical investigations and even the details of medical treatments become refined. Let us re-visit some of the breakthroughs that have permitted physicians and healers to save life over the centuries. Not much is known about our Neolithic ancestors, but we discovered that they were able to perform dentistry using flint tipped drills and bowstrings. Timothy Darvill and Geoff Wainwright, both British archeologists, believe Stonehenge in Southern England was the equivalent of Lourdes, a place which attracted healers and medicine men, a place where the sick looked for healing. Many during the years may have settled their permanent bases to provide care to the sick. According to the Rigveda, an ancient

Hindu text, a warrior queen named Vishpala, believed to be a rejected princess, received the first prosthetic leg, an iron leg, around the 12th century (1500-1200 BC). The leg was donated by the Ashwin’s, horse headed twin gods who fly around in a gold chariot, handing presents and healing the sick. The Ashwin’s reminded the modern Santa Claus. Alcmaeon of Croton is described as one of the most eminent philosophers and scientist of all time. He was referred as a thinker of a considerable originality. He made the difference between veins and arteries, in 500 BC. He is called by many, the father of Neuroscience. More, he was considered as a pioneer and an advocate of anatomical dissection of animal and human bodies. An Italian monk, Salvino D’Armate of Florence (1258-1312) was credited for the invention of the first wearable pair of glasses; They were convex lens

Advances in the Medical field.

Is Medicine an Art or a Science? For us physicians, Medicine is the science which allow us to diagnose, treat as well as prevent diseases. Centuries from the medieval times to the present, has bought different aspects of a

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able to correct hyperopia but could be used as well to correct presbyopia, in 1285. Some doubted the authenticity but a memorial plaque boring the inscription “Here lies Salvino degl’ Armati, son of Amato of Florence, inventor of “eyeglasses”, is the source of the credit. Francois Magendie (1773-1855), a French physiologist is considered a pioneer of experimental physiology, pharmacology and pathology. He described the foramen of Magendie. He initiated studies on the effects of drugs on the body like Morphine and Strychnine. He isolated Emetine with Joseph Pelletier (1788-1842). He confirmed the observation made by the Scottish Sir Charles Bell in 1811 on the fact that the anterior roots of the spinal nerves were motor in function while the posterior roots communicate sensory impulses. He gave one of the earliest descriptions of the cerebrospinal fluid in 1825. He is believed to be the first modern medical scientist. Lessons of Anatomy have helped us give him more respect when the Hole of Magendie was dissected in laboratory. Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, was the pioneer in creating the first world vaccine: the smallpox vaccine, in 1796. For centuries, Smallpox has devastated mankind and our island of Haiti also has suffered from an epidemy which took many lives. In modern times, we would not have to worry much about this disease but with the recent world trade center attack on September 11, 2001, the threat of biological warfare has bought back the fear. Themistocles Gluck, a German physician, was an unrecognized genius. He invented the first endoprosthesis in 1890 at Berlin, Germany. The prosthesis was made from ivory. More than 130 years after, we are still using such component to secure a hip replacement allowing less wear down of the prosthesis. He performed the first documented total wrist arthroplasty. Wilhelm Rontgen, (1845-1923) was a German mechanical engineer and a physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wave-length range known as X-rays or Rontgen rays, in 1895, achievement that earn him the Nobel prize in 1901. Willem Einthoven, (1860-1927), was born on the island of Java, in the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Physician and physiologist, he invented the first practical electrocardiogram in 1903 and later received the Nobel prize for his work in 1924. Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955) was a Scottish physician, microbiologist and pharmacologist who is best known for his discovery over the lysosome enzyme in 1923 and the first antibiotic substance: Penicillin, to fight infection. Fleming wrote numerous papers on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy. He was elected emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of London in

1948. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1943 and knighted in 1944. He received the Nobel prize in Medicine in 1945. Rosalind Franklyn, (1920-1958) , was an English chemist and X-rays crystallographer who made contribution to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, Viruses, coal and graphite around 1952. This pioneer molecular biologist has allowed us to understand the mystery of the double helix. She won the Nobel Prize in 1963 and the next year, biologist James Watson and Francis Crick were able to build on the first DNA model. Rosalind Franklyn died four years after, victim of an ovarian cancer. The American Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon, (1903-1973), performed the earliest successful open-heart by-pass operation using a heart-lung machine in 1953. This was a lifetime project, making him a leader and pioneer in the field of cardiac surgery. He remained as Chief of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College and wrote a standard textbook on chest surgery. In 1957, the first intravenous infusion of bone marrow was performed on cancer patients. The bone marrow produces blood cells, immature cells called stem cells. Now day, it is common practice to call hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, a transplantation of omnipotent hematopoietic stem cells usually deriving from the bone marrow, peripheral blood or the umbilical cord blood. It may be autologous, allogenic or syngeneic, but it is used to cure a wide variety of life-threatening disease ranging from cancer to Immunodeficiency syndromes to anemias like Sickle cell disease. Swedish surgeon Rune Elmqvist, also engineer and inventor (1906-1996), developed and implanted a Pacemaker, for the first time, in 1958 under the direction of a cardiothoracic surgeon Ake Sinning at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Sweden. The first birth control pill was approved in 1960. They were hormonal pills taken daily to prevent pregnancy in women. The medication was safe and affordable, effective with many health benefits in stopping the sperm from reaching the ovula (Fertilization). The hormones in the pills were able to prepare the endometrium in producing a thick mucus at the cervix, rendering difficult the road for the spermatozoids to swim toward an egg. An American Physician, William Fouts House, otologist and medical researcher, (1923-2012), invented the first cochlear implant for profoundly deaf patients. Those implants were a neuro-prosthetic device, surgically implanted which provided a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. Those implants bypassed the normal acoustic hearing process in replacing it with electric hearing. Sir Godfrey Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer

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(1919-2004), who developed the first commercial Computed Tomography (CT) in 1967 with Allan Cormack after studying electronics and radar as a member of the Royal Force during the World War II. Both received the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1979. Many names of American and Foreign physicians like Lawrence Bennett and Irwin Weisman bring practicality to the world of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) but, the preliminary work on ”magnetic resonance phenomena” will surface as a discovery, in 1946, by Felix Bloch (1904-1983), a Swiss physicist mainly working in the USA, on new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and Edward Mills Purcell (1912-19870), an American Physicist working on nuclear resonance in liquids and solids. They both won later, the Nobel Prize in 1952. Two other scientists also extended their work in different aspects of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An American Paul Lauterbur (1929-2007) and Sir Peter Mansfield, an English physician (1933-2017), who shared also the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2003. They were able to assure the reproduction of MRI Images. The world’s first child was conceived through in vitro fertilization. Born in 1978, her name was Louise Brown. In this process, an egg is combined with sperm, outside the body but in vitro after the woman ovulatory system was previously stimulated. An ovum was taken off to be fertilized by the sperm in the laboratory. Puma 560 robotic surgical arm performed the first documented use of robot-assisted surgery. It was for a delicate neurosurgical biopsy. Then an industrial robotic arm developed by Victor Scheinman at the University of Stanford. Puma was purchased by Westinghouse (1980) and later by a swiss Company Staubli (1988). Nokia was also associated with the Puma company in the fabrication of the early models. The advantages in the new systems to overcome obstacles encountered in laparoscopic surgery are beneficial in increasing dexterity and restoring proper hand-eye coordination as well as improving visualization. Nowadays, a Nephrectomy or a Hysterectomy can be performed through a 5 to 10 inches long incision around the umbilicus or above the pubis. These systems make surgeries that were technically difficult or unfeasible previously, now possible. Yoshizumi Ishino (1959- ), a Japanese molecular biologist and researcher discovered the sequence of clustered DNA, paving the way for gene editing, in 1987. Genome editing is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted, modified, deleted or replaced in the genome of a living organism. Julio Palmaz (1945- ), an Argentinian Radiologist, invented the intravascular stent to prevent clogged

arteries, at the University of Texas Health Center in San Antonio TX in 1988. Within four years of approval by the FDA, these stents, balloon expandable were used in more than 80% of percutaneous coronary interventions. This was an unparalleled success. Soon litigation between Palmaz and Johnson and Johnson were initiated until a district court in Delaware settled the issues. Dolly the sheep (1996-2003), was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. She was a female domestic sheep cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She became by far the most famous clone although cloning has existed in nature since the dawn of life especially in asexual bacteria. Clone are all around us and are fundamentally no different to other organisms. A clone has the same DNA sequence as its parent and so genetically identical. Several clones have been produced before Dolly in frogs, mice and cows but the cells of embryos were used. This make Dolly remarkable for being the first clone from an adult cell, a major scientific achievement. In 2000 a map of the nucleotide sequences for each chromosome in the human DNA was completed as part of work on the human genome project. Remember what a nucleic acid sequence is: a succession of letter indicating the order of the nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA or RNA molecule. Laurent Lantieri, an eminent French plastic surgeon, performed the first full face transplant in 2005 on a man whose face was disfigured by elephant man disease. Face transplant has been a reality for now two years and successful transplant of the whole lachrymal system which produce tear as well as the mouth was achieved. Since, American surgeons have learned the techniques, and in November 2005, a woman received the first partial transplant (lip. nose and chin) in Amiens, France while another one full face transplant was performed at the Cleveland clinic. San Diego Bioprinting Company Organovo-3D prints the first ever blood vessel. In the three-dimensional bioprinting, 3D printing and 3D printing -like techniques combine cells, growth factors and biochemical parts to maximally imitate natural tissue characteristics. Finally, we can conclude that, the first decade of the 21st century brought discoveries, mistakes and medical advances that has influenced the world of Medicine, from Genomes to Hormones: The Human Genome discoveries as discussed in the last AMHE Newsletter will help in explaining what our 23000 genes will do. We have already demonstrated the way, time and money have influenced our medical world, but many believe that Preventive Medicine will dictate how to approach a patient through their genes. We may not have a national anti-smoking laws but already

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27 states and the District of Columbia have adopted smoking bans in bars, restaurants and casinos cutting out exposure to second hand smoke. Such action will only reduce heart attack and death rate in people suffering of heart diseases. On the other side, doctors and hospitals are motivating patients to quit smoking. Heart disease is decreased by 40% with cessation of smoking. New drugs that did not existed 15 years ago like the new statins, the TPA, “Tissue Plasmogen Activator”, Stent surgery and By-pass surgery have improved the outcome vascular disease. The American Heart Association set a decade goal that started bringing results. New treatment and Prevention combined have improved the mortality rate in heart disease. We have already discussed the advances in the Stem cell researches in our last AMHE newsletter, but it is surprising to know that Europeans have genetically manipulated the bone marrow cells taken from 2 seven years old twin boys and then transplanted the altered cells into the sick boy, arresting the progress of a fatal brain disease called “Adreno-leuko-dystrophy” or ALD. Presently, we can make embryonic like stem cells directly from skin cells. New drugs based on stem cells are also being developed. The last ten years has shown spectacular progress. A specific oncogene HER-2, estimated to be found in 25% of women breast cancer, will respond to HERCEPTIN even if powerful chemotherapy drugs have failed. This drug was presented by a team from Duke University. Another cancer drug called “Gleevec” target genetic mutations” bcr-abl” (b.c.r. able) that cause cancer cells to grow and multiply in patients with a variety of cancer including chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) or stomach cancer (GIST). Those agents open the door to new drugs able to control the growth and the blood supply of the tumors. The introduction of a highly active anti-retroviral therapy with HAART has downgraded HIV/AIDS from a serious disease to now a chronic disease with survival stretching into decades. We remember well 25 years ago, any young patient with AIDS in the USA, will not live more than five years and will prepare himself to die but now, they are expected to live until their seventies once they continue taking their medication. Our next challenge will be to cure AIDS. We have in the last twenty years, prescribed hormonal

supplements like Estrogen or a combination of Estrogen and Progestin to protect patients from heart conditions especially after menopause. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were given to protect bones, brain, skin, libido or even symptoms like hot flashes, sleep disturbances, depression until the National Heat lung and Blood Institute stopped supporting the program because of an increase in risk of heart attack, stroke, blood clots and breast cancer. Inversely, HRT did show an impact in reducing colorectal cancer, fractures and post-menopausal hot flashes. We have already demonstrated the impact of MRI in the field of Medicine. Nowadays, sophisticated imaging techniques can map the way the brain works in tracing neurons, brain cells, by tracking oxygen level and blood flow while a patient lies awake inside the MRI Scanner. The difference between the world in which we are living and 150 years ago is not based on internet or new planes or even nuclear weapons. It is based on the LIFESPAN. We doubled our lifetime expectancy, now 80. You would have been dead in the past with Smallpox, now eradicated because of the vaccine, or the Cholera would have infected you, but you have now filtered and chemically treated water. One can always ask himself why we are not dead yet and everybody will have an explanation to justify such existence. Remember well that life-saving treatment have become routine. We still need to look for answers why so many premature deaths and what can we do to grant people in poorer countries the same life expectancy we enjoy. If in the past, people have died of Tuberculosis, Unexplained Fever, Infectious or parasitic diseases, we have learned how to prevent complications and treat such diseases. It is always good to look backward. We have mastered in the 20th century microbes, bacteria, parasites, viruses and have learned how to avoid their infestations. Death can be mysterious, but we have always found an explanation and a solution to fight back. The science of medicine will bring light in our search of the unknown, a way to fight because we cannot afford to lose. This is a fight of a Lifetime. Maxime Coles MD

References: 1- Popular Science, Special Edition. Our Future Body- “Medicine Advances so Far”. PP 6-7.

2- Medpage Today.” The Top Ten Medical Advances of the Decade”.

3- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “3 D Bioprinting”.

4- Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. “Genome Research”.

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Reynald Altéma, MD

Jean-Robert Donat, un gosse de quatorze ans, était

un as en classe et le poulain du professeur Jean-

Robert Oulianov Lidol. L’élève était connu comme

ti Nòbè car il était de petite taille tandis que

l’enseignant comme gwo Nòbè en tenant compte

de sa corpulence. Ti Nòbè avait impressionné gwo

Nòbè dès la première rédaction lorsqu’il eut

l’audace d’écrire, « Tandis qu’un Grec cherchait

un homme honnête avec une lampe, ma quête de la

vérité ne laissera aucune anguille dérobée sous

roche ou de grenouille en métamorphose » et

quelques paragraphes plus tard, il eut à dire, « Ma

soif pour le savoir et la connaissance est comme

une source intarissable. » Sans le savoir, ti Nòbè

décrivait les traits de l’élève modèle du professeur

Lidor : l’aptitude intellectuelle, la rectitude dans le

comportement et la certitude de l’élocution. En

guise de commentaires, le professeur avait écrit

dans la marge de la rédaction : « Très bien, » le

meilleur compliment venant de lui. Au fait, ti Nòbè

avait pour devise, « De plaire au professeur Lidor.

»

Gwo Nòbè avait toujours un faible pour l’élève

curieux, studieux et performant. Cependant ti Nòbè

en classe avait une incitation à la performance

académique : une rivalité avec son demi-frère de

sang mais pas de nom car fils de même père, ti

Nòbè était le fruit d’une liaison extra-maritale.

Son sort fut aggravé par les revers politiques.

Son père et sa mère supportaient deux camps

politiques opposés et maintenant le parti

politique de sa mère siégeait au pouvoir, malheur

de malheurs. Sa mère avait maintenant un emploi

assez bien rémunéré et ne dépendait plus de son

père.

Pris entre le marteau de fils illégitime et

l’enclume de discorde parentale, ti Nòbè n’avait

qu’une seule hantise, celle de l’excellence

académique pour mater son demi-frère qui ne

l’adressait guère mais avec qui il partageait une

ressemblance physique inouïe. Obtenir une

bonne note du professeur Lidor revêtait un cachet

particulier car il avait la réputation d’un prodige

bien versé dans diverses matières et chaque élève

rêvait de l’émuler. Ce désir de l’approbation du

professeur avait une telle ampleur qu’une bonne

note de lui était désignée une Lidor.

La compétition fut ardente, spécialement entre

les deux demi-frères qui menaient une lutte par

proxy pour leurs parents. Tandis que dans les

écoles congréganistes l’élève salivait pour une

médaille, dans l’établissement que fréquentait ti

Nòbè, on était à la recherche d’une Lidor. Pas

moins que les élèves eux-mêmes évaluaient un

devoir qui avait obtenu une bonne note avec un

respect, une admiration avoisinant la révérence

mais mélangée avec un peu de jalousie même

quand axée sur une minutieuse révision du degré

de travail méritoire d’une telle marque de

distinction comme si le document avait le

pedigree d’un parchemin ou d’un talisman de la

chance.

Par extension, le terme avait garni la réputation

d’excellence, d’une œuvre raffinée, bien faite.

Ainsi les élèves des hautes classes parlaient de la

valeur d’un devoir en vertu d’une Lidor en

entiers, à demi, à un quart ou bien comme remis

à ses parents.

Ti Nòbè et son demi-frère, Jean, comme leurs

parents, épousaient des opinions aux antipodes

au sujet des équipes de foot. Ti Nòbè

sympathisait un peu avec le Brésil mais Jean,

était un fanatique farouche de l’Argentine. Dans

Ti Nòbè.

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une rédaction de fin d’année scolaire, le sujet était

d’expliquer le phénomène de support démesuré des

Haïtiens pour les équipes étrangères, Jean en

essence avait dit :

« Le choix de supporter une équipe est un droit

individuel, inaliénable, découplé de couleur

politique car les joueurs débordent les frontières

pour aller gagner leur pain. Un Ivoirien évolue en

Angleterre, un Français devient fameux en

Allemagne et un Haïtien peut être trouvé partout

sur la terre à la recherche d’un mieux-être.

Manchester United, Barcelona ont des admirateurs

à travers le monde. Donc la règle de la réaction en

double sens permet à un fanatique d’exercer son

choix librement, car la méritocratie règne, la

meilleure preuve que nous vivons dans un monde

sans préjugés raciaux. »

Ti Nòbè par contre avançait l’argument suivant :

« Le support que nous, les Haïtiens, dévouons aux

équipes étrangères, dépasse la norme et reflète un

défoulement, un mépris de nous-mêmes, une

admission de notre incapacité de nous mesurer

contre les autres. On envoie une figue-banane

ou imite le cri des singes seulement envers les

joueurs noirs. L’Argentine que beaucoup de

nos compatriotes admirent, est fière d’avoir

complètement éliminé sa population de noirs

importés comme esclaves. Il est ironique de

supporter un pays qui se distingue de son

passé raciste. Il y a plusieurs pays qui placent

le Brésil en piédestal de berceau du foot mais

aucun d’eux ne nourrit le fanatisme excessif

de notre peuple. Les admirateurs du foot en

général et des équipes sportives sont

nombreux et c’est normal, cependant notre

attitude est unique et par conséquent,

anormale, nocive et mérite d’être

réévaluée. »

Sans coup férir, ti Nòbè a reçu la meilleure

note ; ses condisciples, moins son demi-frère,

ont applaudi en disant tous : ça mérite une

Lidor.

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Tirer mon patient du cercle

infernal de la dépression.

Le patient que j’ai rencontré cette semaine est un homme de la soixantaine qui souffre de dépression sévère et qui n’arrive pas à se relever de sa situation infernale entamée voila déjà quelque temps. Cet homme présente toutes les caractéristiques d’une dépression sévère telle que reconnue dans le Manuel de diagnostique et de Statistique de la littérature psychiatrique Américaine aussi dénommé (DSM-V). D’abord Il a très peu ou pas d’appétit ; il dort a longueur de journée. Il a beaucoup de chose dans son passé qu’il regrette amèrement, et dont il aimerait se dissocier.il est toujours d’humeur triste, s’isolant a la maison et restant imperméable aux tentatives de ses amis qui lui demandent de les rejoindre et de participer aux activités qu’ils organisent. Mais Il se plaint que les amis n’appellent plus et aient fini par se passer de lui.il a des pensées négatives qui lui remplissent la tète et lui donnent le sentiment d’avoir gâché sa vie et de n’avoir rien fait de positive dans l’existence. Alors qu’il parlait, j’écoutais avec une attention soutenue, notant à l’aide d’un stylo les points saillants sur lesquels je comptais revenir. Je lui donnais tout le loisir dont il avait besoin pour s’exprimer. Naturellement j’intervenais de temps à autre, en mode facilitateur, pour clarifier certains points qui me paraissaient obscurs. Dépendant du temps dont on dispose, on peut toujours laisser le patient se décharger pendant un temps plus ou moins long avant de reprendre les choses en main et de rediriger la conversation. Une fois sa plainte bien débitée, j’ai repris ses propos à reculons, tentant de comprendre ce qui aurait pu être fait autrement. J’ai compris qu’a l’âge de soixante cinq ans et plus, les personne qui n’ont pas beaucoup réalisé pour leurs vieux jours , ont toujours ce sentiment

d’avoir gâché leur vie .C’est un stade du développement de l’ humain que ERIKSON appelle : Integrity versus Despair…. c'est-à-dire un stade ou l’individu est ou bien satisfait ou déçu de la manière dont il a géré sa vie, au moment tout juste ou il commence a faire face aux problèmes de la fin dernière. D’abord il se plaint des amis qui n’appellent plus. Je lui ai dit que l’amitié est comme une plante.il faut savoir la nourrir et la cultiver. Elle peut mourir quand on n’en prend pas soin. Je poursuivais en lui faisant comprendre qu’il y a toujours une sorte de bénéfice mutuel et de symbiose dans tout rapport humain ;et que si l’amitié n’est pas nourrie de part et d’autre, elle finit par disparaitre .Je l’encourageais à renouer contact avec ses amis, même quand il n’appelle pas aussi souvent qu’il le faisait autrefois. Il avoua ensuite avoir de plus en plus de pensées négatives à occuper son esprit.il pense même parfois au suicide.je lui ai alors expliqué comment, vivre dans l’isolement, détaché des autres, peut être une source d’introspection et d’idées négatives qui ne retournent pas toujours une bonne impression de soi. En effet, en s’isolant des autres, ou en réduisant ses contacts avec le monde extérieur, on a de plus en plus de temps pour se concentrer sur soi-même, pour réfléchir sur sa vie, ses erreurs et son passé. On se lit au conditionnel, ‘’ en ce qui aurait pu être ou aurait pu se passer ‘’au lieu de s’accepter pour ce qu’on est. On vit dans le regret du temps passé et des opportunités ratées, on tombe dans le remords pour finir par sombrer dans une dépression que l’isolement alimente au fil des jours. Il en convenait bien avec moi que l’on ne peut changer ce qui est déjà fait ; et qu’il était toujours plus avantageux de se servir des leçons du passé pour mieux

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orienter son avenir. IL n’a aucun problème d’orientation sexuelle. Il est vrai que mon patient est homosexuel, mais de type ego syntonique, c’est-à-dire s’acceptant pour ce qu’il est, au lieu d’être ego dystonique ou tout simplement incapable de s’accepter comme tel. Il me demanda la feuille de papier sur laquelle je développais la théorie de la dépression a partir de l’isolement de soi, lorsque les pensées négatives envahissent l’esprit et poussent au remords par rapport au passé et entrainent la dépression. Il me demanda enfin si j’estimais nécessaire qu’il

continue avec les médicaments puis qu’il va faire un effort pour rester plus actif et moins détaché de ses amis. Je lui répondis que les médicaments doivent aller de paire avec la psychothérapie et que l’expérience a prouvé que le résultat est de beaucoup supérieur quand les deux modalités thérapeutiques sont appliquées en même temps.je lui passais sa recette de pilules anti- dépressives et de somnifères tout en lui donnant rendez-vous a la plus prochaine session. RONY JEANMARY, M.D. CORAL SPRINGS, FLORIDA, LE 28 OCTOBRE 2018

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Dear AMHE members, family, and friends; Contribute to the AMHE Sickle cell Clinic in Leogane NOW at Gofundme.

AMHE is seeking to raise $200.000.00 to Build the Clinic. We are waiting for your contribution. 1) We have created a Gofundme; your generous tax-deductible donations, earmarked for the clinic, will be sent to the AMHE Foundation and a receipt mailed to you. 2) Forward this message to your friends and family, promote it on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any social media you use. 3) You can also send your contribution by check made payable to the AMHE Foundation and mailed to: AMHE, Incorporated 1166 Eastern Parkway, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11213 4) Ask friends and family to donate by sending them the link above 5) Add a link to this project on your Facebook page Sincerely,

Maxime Coles

Maxime Coles M.D., F.I.C.S., F.R.C.S., F.A.A.N.O.S. Orthopedic Surgeon and Traumatologist AMHE Central Executive Committee Past President AMHE Board Of Trustees

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Le pouvoir lui est monté à la tête : Quoi de neuf Doc ? Aldy Castor, M.D.,

Leurs Excellences Messieurs les Présidents de la République, sans oublier leurs Majestés Sérénissimes, Altesses royales et impériales, ont semé dans notre mémoire collective, leur déclarations et citations, de véritables piques, parfois ubuesques. Citons donc quelques célèbres phrases. Louis XIV proclamait que « l’Etat, c’est Moi ». Juste ce mois d’aout 2018, l’ancien directeur de la CIA, John Brennan, un critique acharné du Président Trump, ripostât « Trump est soulé par le pouvoir » après la révocation de son autorisation de sécurité nationale par le Président Trump. Le Président Jean Bertrand commandait : « je veux la totalité du sénat, pas la majorité ». De son côté, l’actuel Président d’Haïti, Jovenel Moise dictait : « le Président a parlé, point barre ». Et pour finir, Maitre Gerard Gourgue augurait à quelques amis à la suite d’une visite de courtoisie à Jean Bertrand Aristide, deux jours après avoir été élu président d’Haïti : « Le pouvoir lui est monté à la tête ; même le mal il le fera mal ». (suite)

Power Has Gone to His Head? What’s up Doc? Aldy Castor, M.D.,

Their Excellencies Presidents of the Republic, without forgetting their Serene Majesties, Royal and Imperial Highnesses - have sown in our collective memory their edifying or incongruous statements. Let’s quote some. There is France’s Louis the Fourteenth, with his, “L’Etat c’est Moi!” (I am the State!). Just last month, August 2018, Former CIA Director John Brennan, President Trump’s fierce critic fired back “Trump is drunk on power” after his national security clearance revocation by President Trump. President Jean Bertrand Aristide commanded, “Je veux la totalité du Sénat, pas la majorité!” (I want the whole Senate, not just the majority!) Haiti’s current President Jovenel Moise dictated, “Le Président a parlé, point barre” (The President has spoken, period.) Finally, Gérard Gourgue augured to a few friends following a courtesy visit two days after Jean Bertrand Aristide was elected president of Haiti: “Le pouvoir lui est monté à la tête; même le mal, il le fera mal” (Power has gone to his head. Anything he touches will fail). (more)

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Corner of Traveller: La Rubrique de Odler Jeanlouie MD

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Rapport de la célébration du Jubilé de la classe de 68, FMH La célébration du 50ieme anniversaire de la Graduation de la Classe de 68, de l’École de Médecine à L'Université d'état d'Haïti a eu lieu le 4 aout 2018, dans l’élégante Cotillon chambre pour le cocktail et dans la somptueuse salle de réception du nom de « Société », de l'hôtel Garden City à Long Island New York. L’affaire était splendide, agréable et chic, comme caractérisé par ceux qui ont assisté à l'événement. Les 24 membres de la classe qui ont répondu à l'appel étaient bien entourés des membres de leur famille et de leurs amis intimes, pour remplir les prémisses à capacité. Les émotions étaient à fleur de peau dans ce rassemblement spécial, favorable aux réminiscences de nos jours à la "Faculté" et du jour particulier de notre graduation le 3 août 1968 dans l'auditorium improvisé de la Faculté. Ces diplômés maintenant, les aînés de notre profession venaient de diverses localités du grand continent américain. La présence de ceux qui pratiquent en Haïti a été particulièrement notée et appréciée : Dr Gabriel Brouard, Dr Greta Lataillade Roy et Dr Guy Theodore. Le rôle de Maitre de cérémonie a été dévolu à notre collègue le Dr Daniel Faustin qui l’a aussi rempl i avec beaucoup de charme et de tact. Les honorées ont été reconnus individuellement et ils ont été gratifies l’un apes l‘autre d’ une épingle commémorative comme un souvenir de l'occasion et comme un symbole de leurs réalisations et de leur endurance ; ce rituel a été présidé par le Dr Emmanuel François comme Représentant du personnel professionnel de la faculté à l'époque. L'aspect majestueux de l'environnement a été augmenté par la qualité du diner et la diligence du personnel délivrant les serv ices. Le divertissement a été fourni par le pianiste Victor Supris et son groupe et par la chanteuse Martine Bruno, avec un spectacle de professionnalisme et de talent qui était remarquable. L’AMHE était représentée par le Dr Paul Nacier, le Dr Eric Jérôme, le Dr Serge Bontemps, le Dr Remy Obas et le Dr Emmanuel François comme une marque de leur leadership. Quelques réflexions personnelles à propos de l'occasion ont été fournies par le Dr Yves Manigat. Ceux qui sont partis pour l’au-delà et ceux qui sont malades et invalides ont été reconnus par le Dr Serge St Gérard. Notre Prix Spécial a été accordé à notre camarade de classe Dr Guy Theodore par le Dr Wesner Moise pour sa contribution monumentale a la santé et au bien-être des Pignonnais et des habitants de la région dans le Nord d’Haïti. Des dispositions ont été prises pour une contribution financière à l'hôpital de Bienfaisance de Pignon à l'appui du sacrifice héroïque du Dr Theodore dans la réalisation de cette œuvre patriot ique et humanitaire. Pour nous de la classe de 68, c'est un jalon de valeur. D'un autre point de vue, c'est juste une autre tranche de l'histoire de la diaspora haïtienne. Yves J. Manigat MD

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Report of the Jubilee Celebration of the Class of 68, FMH The Jubilee Celebration of the Graduation of the Class of 68, School of Medicine, State University of Haiti took place on the 4th of August 2018, in the elegant Cotillion Room for the cocktail, and the sumptuous reception room known under the name of “Société “ of the Garden City Hotel in Long Island New York. It was splendid, enjoyable and classy, as characterized by those who attended the event. The 24 members of the class who responded to the call were well surrounded by their proud family members and close friends, to fill up the premises to capacity. Emotions were flowing in this special gathering with reminiscences of our days at the “Faculté” and the particular day of our graduation on the third of August 1968 in the makeshift auditorium of the School. These graduates now seniors in our profession came from various conglomerations within the United States The presence of those practicing in Haiti was particularly noted and appreciated: Dr Gabriel Brouard, Dr Greta Lataillade Roy and Dr Guy Theodore. Our Colleague Dr Daniel Faustin had again masterfully orchestrated the event as our M.C. Our Honorees were recognized individually during the ceremony and they were delivered one by one a commemorative lapel as a souvenir of the occasion and a symbol of their achievements and endurance; which was officiated by Dr Emmanuel Francois as Representative of the Professional staff of the School of Medicine at the time. The majestuous aspect of the environment was augmented by the appetizing quality of the meals and the diligence of the personnel delivering the services. The entertainment was provided by The Pianist Victor Surpris and his group and by the Vocalist Martine Bruno, with a show of professionalism and talent which was remarkable. The AMHE was represented by Dr Paul Nacier, Dr Eric Jerome, Dr Serge Bontemps, Dr Remy Obas and Dr Emmanuel Francois as a mark of their leadership. Some personal reflexions about the occasion were provided by Dr Yves Manigat. The Departed and the sick were acknowledged by Dr Serge St Gerard. Our Achievement Award was delivered to our classmate Dr Guy Theodore by Dr Wesner Moise for his monumental contribution to the healthcare and the well-being of the people of Pignon Haiti and its surroundings. Arrangements have been made for a financial contribution to the Hospital de Bienfaisance de Pignon in support of Dr Theodore’s heroic effort in the realization of this patriotic and humanitarian endeavor. For us of the class of 68, it is a milestone of great value. From another perspective, it is just another page in the history of the Haitian Diaspora. Yves J Manigat MD

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ANNONCE FUNERAIRE

Dear Pierre-Paul, We are saddened to learn the loss of your sister. We are writing, however, to let you know that your AMHE friends share in your sadness. We want to let you know that you are thought of in the kindest way. As they say, time heals all wounds. We are hopeful that time will work to ease the pain that this loss will have caused and that you will soon regain your strength and serenity. On behalf of the AMHE family, accept our most sincere condolences. Sincerely, Roosevelt Clérismé, MD CEC President

With Sorrow, Announcing the passing Of Carl Joseph Barrau, Father of Dr. Carmel Barrau, active member of the AMHE. And Immediate Past- President of the Florida chapter of the AMHE. Carl Joseph Barrau passed away on October 10, 2018 at the age of 86. AHHE presents its heartfelt condolences to His children and family members, specially to Dr. Carmel Barrau and his wife Josee, to Ralph Barrau, Carline Barrau, Christelle Alcide and Vania Lemaire ,to his grandchildren, his current and former wives and to all his friends and acquaintances who mourn his departure and will miss him terribly.. A viewing and remembrance night will be held at: Scarano Funeral Home located at 6300 Sterling Rd Davie, Florida, 33314. From 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday October 19, 2018. The Funeral service will take place at St. Mark Catholic Church: 5601 South Flamingo Rd, South west ranches, fl. 33330 at 12:00 Noon on 10/20/2018. https://scaranofuneralhome.com/ MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE!!! JeanRony JeanMary, M.D. AMHE FLORIDA CHAPTER PRESIDENT

Ce poeme d'Alfred de Musset EST dedie a tous les camarades qui nous Ont quite pour l'Au-dela. Nous nous reverons car ce n'est qu'un aurevoir. Maxime Coles

J’ai perdu ma force et ma vie, Et mes amis et ma gaîté ; J’ai perdu jusqu’à la fierté Qui faisait croire à Mon génie. Quand j’ai connu la Vérité, J’ai cru que c’était une amie ; Quand je l’ai comprise et sentie, J’en étais déjà dégoûté.

Et pourtant elle EST éternelle, Et ceux qui se sont passés d’elle Ici-bas Ont tout ignoré. Dieu parle, IL faut qu’on lui réponde. Le seul bien qui me reste au monde Est d’avoir quelquefois pleuré.

“Tristesse” – Alfred de Musset

Joseph Pierre-Paul Cadet, MD Dear Pierre-Paul, We are saddened to learn the loss of your sister. We are writing, however, to let you know that your AMHE friends share in your sadness. We want to let you know that you are thought of in the kindest way. As they say, time heals all wounds. We are hopeful that time will work to ease the pain that this loss will have caused and that you will soon regain your strength and serenity. On behalf of the AMHE family, accept our most sincere condolences. Sincerely, Roosevelt Clérismé, MD CEC President

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