SERPİL ÖZSEZGİN

Consultant, Doctor, Project manager, Student, World traveler

I am an anesthesiologist and reanimation specialist from Turkey. I graduated from Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine in 1985 and also I completed my residency in the Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation in 1994-1999. I was an observer and fellowship for liver transplantation anesthesia (scholarship from French government-CIES) at the Hospital Paul Brousse in Paris from 1995 to 1996. In France, I succeeded the exam the context of AFSA in 1997 then I became a specialist in Turkey. They invited me to work as the associated fellowship in CHU de Bicetre in Paris, for one year AFSA , In 1998. In 2000, after returning to Turkey, I chose the Aegean Maternity Hospital, with some 15000 operations per year and initiated the painless labour procedure which was never performed, to enable spinal anesthetic processes to be routinely employed in terms of epidural, combined and spinal ones in the hospital. I initiated the reservoir venous port procedure intraoperative and comfort cases during chemotherapy. I conducted the epidural ports in relief of gynecologic cancer pain. In 2000, I opened a private Pain-free Life Centre and dealt with management of pains in end-stage cancer patients. I began to admit cases from those colleagues who do not want to manage cancer patients when complications and insufferable pains become routinely insistent due to operative methodologies and chemotherapy applied for them and tried to find solutions to almost all their problems of pains and other complications. I happened to encounter a variety of cases day by day with satisfaction of patients increasing as for answers to all questions asked by them. My portfolio of entities was composed of Alzheimer, dementia and chronic diseases whose pains and palliative cares were all handled and managed by me. My experience in palliative care increased partly because of cancer cases and geriatric population rising.

My goal is to help develop sustainable solutions to reduce difficulties for patients and their relatives. We have made great progress in pain management in the last decade. Nobody ought to suffer from pain, but still patients are dying in terrible pain, without a chance to get opioids.Behind closed doors and hidden in locked drawers, opioids are available but not accessible and can be considered as a crime when it is not used at the right time, on the right person with the rational use. Living in the 21st Century, using all the high technological instruments provided we could make a difference and challenge this issue to improve quality of life.

The fact that the world has been globalized and therefore geriatric population increased led me to think about what we could do to create a shared and universal wisdom in palliative care and monitoring chronic diseases. I wanted to use and share my own experiences as to what ever we could do about the matter able to create solutions for mankind both domestically and universally. I would rather carry my experience to the points where I could further share it than participate in the related organizations and conventions and use it personally. I do seek to be missioned as a science woman in the name of our unique planet, earth. I believe that we could all find solution to problems in a rapidly globalized world.

What we could do about painless and quality life for end of life.