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Desafiando la sordera | Gonzalo Corvera | TEDxColegioHebreoTarbut


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Goodnight
It will be difficult to follow the previous act
I want to take you on a trip that has
been really my professional trip as
they just heard
I am a doctor according to turn a
specialty in otolaryngology and
Head and neck surgery
I have a sub specialty in surgery
ear and skull base and the truth I do not
I wanted to study medicine
I studied tells me years later and has
come to the conclusion that they study
medicine for fear of fears
coward because my dad was a doctor I
he said very successful and I in high school said
who wanted to be a physicist and mathematician is not
nothing to do and I sincerely believe
I was afraid to choose my own
path
I had no maybe also a little
of wanting to earn my approval I do not know
but he never really wanted
influence me in any way
then I suddenly found myself at
Half of medical career
dissatisfied with disgust I did not know what was going to
be of my life and if I remember
clearly like it was a day in
specific that I said ‘well I do not shave
I’m not one of those who abandons I’m going to
finish this because I started and if my
motivation if my impetus is not that of
exactly this entertained me to be that
what I do, I’m going to do well
whatever it is that I’m going I’m going
to do well and that gave me peace of mind
It gave me peace of mind to keep going
to finish the race and looking for
make that maybe it would be
researcher I interested me
cardiology then my social service
I did it in research at the institute
of cardiology and that year was a
watershed in my life because they passed two
things we are talking about in 1983 in 1883
discover computers and the and in the
I started working in a cabinet later
of audiology the computers
became they fascinated me one thing
impressive what I could do with
to the extent that my thesis
social services that year was
design a program that allows
calculate lung flows and pressures
using a programmable calculator and
this is like I learned how they think
the computers my wife says it ‘s
almost who I am but but that
it really opened I liked it but in the
late simply to earn money
work in an audiology cabinet and
it made me very interesting to understand what
it was what I was getting are more
what to do
measure the function of the ear and I started to
realize that the ear in an organ
extraordinarily interesting the 1
follow if we think about the five senses
theoretically what and 21 of them then a
of two or they are not five senses and they are
six because the ear takes care of two
things takes care of hearing what
we are taking right now to
understand what I am saying that is
load the balance and how is it possible
that an organ takes care of both
things
what happens is that the noise is a
accelerometer now they stay the same
It gives us what else you have to see
heard what he does is measure movement me
Throw the acceleration acceleration followed
having a ball accelerates and then
slows down all physical movements
they are acceleration and deceleration already
instant discovered that gravity is a
acceleration the serious the general theory
of reality tells us that the gravity
it’s acceleration
that our son already knew because
our part of the ear that is in charge
the balance what it does is detect
that gravity to know where the
center of gravity to be able to be
balanced in scene on the feet and but
he also detects movement when he turned
On the one hand I turn for the other
If I sit on a chair and I do not have
no voluntary movement I know that
I’m turning
then that’s because we have sensors
of movement and the other part of the sound
is what we are to communicate
it’s also movement are movement of
the particles of the air that we because
they surround us that when they do that they hit on
the eardrum cause the eardrum to vibrate
iese eardrum that leak reaches the
inner ear where the ear transforms it
now we live it is not true that
we live in reality
we live in a graphic representation of
reality
the we what we see the colors that
we see they are artificial
we have three molecules that detect
colors we can see three colors and we are
lucky because all the rest of the
mammals are events and birds
Birds in 4 is the color that we see
and I see nothing here is completely
different and there’s a saying around here of 93
what the senses give us is
simply a graphic representation
it becomes the physical stimulus in something
that our brain can process and
our brains electric
then the function of the ear is
convert that movement of
molecules in nerve impulses because
that fascinated me and I said that I think that
I’m going here was still medium and safe
but I decided to study
otolaryngology and in the mold and
when I was during in the
specialization studying this I
whole of that in various parts of the world
are wanting to design a computer
that can replace that process that
do it and what do we carry right now
the cochlear implant
I said apps I say knowing what I knew
of hearing and knowing what I knew about
computers
there is no doubt that this was something
that obviously was going to work and
finishing the specialty I said I’m going to
want to do only otology I want me
dedicate to the ear and I went to france to one
of what at that time was one of the
biggest centers in the world that are
starting to work on implants
cochlear a center that were engaged
only eight
now the problem is that as soon as I said
I want to do just gone all my
teachers you have me in mexico you can not
that in Mexico be your specialist in
mexico you can not then you say by
what then because there are very few patients
by ear and the ear is a spurious
disease of poverty and average no
You can live from that and in Mexico
unfortunately given the system of
health that we have
You need to have a private clientele
to be able to live and a moment I said
‘Well I do not know if I’ll be able to live that
but it’s what I want to do
took six years suffering is not
medicine and I found something that I do like
and they tell me that you can not
let’s leave that behind I’m going to
france work in france an implant
coclear happens the first congress
global cochlear implant in that year
I already have two jobs as a first
author and a job as co-author said
excited about what I ‘m doing
returned to Mexico I start working in
that and nobody believes me that there is a law
patient was telling him it’s a cochlear implant
this is what can serve was going and
I saw the great masters people 20
years older than me and with great renown
everyone wants to be confident and
Corvera’s habit says that there is a
apparatus that society can return and
and the great teacher says that that is pure
science fiction and that will leave me
cables by the ears and that not then
Well, it was not something that really
let’s say extraordinarily easy but
relieves people who trust me I managed
some patients to make an effort
awesome because more the problem the
cochlear implant is the cost and I saw
they were listening I had children who are
just learning to talk to you
are reintegrating society why
what happens when we do not listen
everyone knows what happens when we do not see
we close our eyes and we can see each other
clearly what happens when you do not
we see and why I did not put any help
visual
I have no positive idea because
I want you to realize that everything
have learned today of all these
talks and all I’m saying
is auditory
I do not need what I ‘m saying
nothing visual can close your eyes
they could be blind and anyway they have
learned everything that has been here
to learn
the opposite is not true someone you are
completely deaf here can not
understand anything that is happening
although I see it
but they see the supports and helps
visual aids does not mean that the
deafness, we’re not going to say that
it’s worse to either one is a
sinks but yes I can say that I have
adult patients that is staying
blind and deaf and that most what more
The anguish is to be alone but the
point is that the auditions our way
of information input and we live in
the time of information
this is the information age what
makes us grow that information what happens
when a child is born without listening
learn we can not teach you to read
because he does not understand that the words
they have meaning is not that you do not understand
the meaning of words that do not
understands the concept of scribble cheese
means one thing costs a lot
work is like having a connection to
internet so the old man is not to
dropper what we can give you
information to children do not learn to
read do not learn to can not participate
at school in the social rise it
fourth enormously and in adults
I have 20 year olds 22 years old
is finishing his career they stay
deaf is to cut off their lives then I
I saw that this could be fought
I saw that he had the instrument and not
I had a way of giving it because the implant
it is very expensive, very expensive
we are going to found an association not
lucrative and I have one a patient of mine
that was implanted helped me all the
bureaucratic procedure and permits and
others and my uncle that this one a great
philanthropist gave me my first the first
check to open the account
bank something equivalent as of 20 thousand
pesos right now and and time later he told me
that the truth
thinking already seeing the costs he
I thought it will be money thrown to the
garbage that was not going to be able then the
implant is not true that will work
the ear the zero all logo is not true
that an association can not be in Mexico
lucrative to finance this is not
true that he will be able to
that was the reality the theme of this one
this is defining reality is that the
reality that we have now the
Mexican association for hearing
help us to live to die this month
turns 22
we have more than a thousand patients implanted
we have more implanted patients than
the two governmental institutions
sales right now the cochlear implant is already
the treatment of choice in all the
world
we have more experience than
national rehabilitation institute in
cochlear implants the first
scientific publication about mexico
on plastic pillar is our
him and everything that the
formation of the Mexican association for
the audition is to create a team around
from me to an audio team the
therapists administrators this one that that
an institution has been with us
small but but we really have a
huge impact and and what has most
dice
that’s the possibility of being a otologist
finally we close the circle and and
truly I was not not that what
I wanted to do to be an otologist
It’s just something that was giving that
it happened
I followed the path that is being set
in front of me was the only bad thing
had to make the foundation to found the
Mexican association for the option is
a responsibility and now that’s it
responds by continuing to fulfill a
responsibility that gives me the privilege
that I can give something so great to
a person as is the sense of that of
of being able to hear again doing
something that I love doing the only thing
I liked that then make me
they say being truism is not altruism
I earn from that so much that that’s not
maimón altruism
there is an aspect of maimonides tourism
800 years ago he said that level number
one of altruism is the first help that
you can give someone is to do it
partner give him work that’s the best
help that you can give a person is
what we do the association
we associate with patients to
help them make productive
be productive to be able to be
self-sufficient the the the power to do that
it really is what it is absolutely
satisfactory more than any other
thing and I want to close simply
saying that also paraphrasing
hermann hesse in his novel of necessity
is talking a little about magic the
Hermann Hesse said everyone can
do magic everyone can do
magic if you know how to think if you can wait and
if you know how to fast
I believe that we and group and I
we have done magic but I want to modify
because what is not affirmed is
because it is knowing how to think but not stop
to feel is to know how to wait but not
staying still and fasting
There is a time to know how to let go
discipline is knowing is not worrying about
what you will receive wait for what
that is going to get you arrive in your
moment and despite that you have to say
very many
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