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In memoriam: an English translation of an article about our departed firend, Jordi Mancebo i Cortes

  https://www-lavanguardia-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20220806/8453680/adios-referente-luchador-sanidad.amp.html What makes a hospital like Sant Pau, where past and future meet, so great? Its more than six centuries of history? Its modern buildings and equipment? Its University calling? No, this hospital, like all hospitals, is truly great because of its professionals, who understand health care as a public service and dedicate their lives to what they know best: taking care of us. Jordi Mancebo is, sorry, was one of them.    Dr. Mancebo arrived at Sant Pau in 1981 to specialize in intensive care medicine and there he stayed. His work as Chief of Service of Intensive Care Medicine won him numerous honors nationally and internationally. Two of the last honors came this past May when the Spanish Society of Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine named him Honorary Member.   Dr. Mancebo was a tireless worker. Without a doub...