In this episode:

• Medicine is emotional
• The schoolboy revelation that medicine is his home
• The second revelation: becoming dedicated to stroke
• Research to benefit recovery
• Working with Angels 
• The mission to share knowledge

Meet neurologist Dr Francisco Moniche, “Pachi” to his friends, of whom there are many in the global stroke community. 

A neurologist for close to two decades, he knew right from the start of his residency that stroke was what he calls “the best part”. With degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s, a doctor could try preserve and improve a patient’s quality of life. But by treating a stroke you could give someone back their life – and that is something this doctor cannot get enough of.

Pachi is a stroke neurologist and researcher at Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville, the biggest hospital in southern Spain, famous among other things for the quality of its research. It is the country’s number one provider of mechnical thrombectomy, and a catalyst for stroke care excellence in the region - where it has helped many other hospitals improve their pathway.

Pachi is a great friend of Angels, freqently getting involved in training, often in developing countries far from home.  

“Medicine is something absolutely emotional,” he says in a conversation about transmitting passion to medicine. “It’s much more than just putting a drug to a patient. Sometimes you go home and you are absolutely sad.”

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