The clinical director of Hospital da Luz Funchal, Miguel Silva, was the special guest of the Madeira Viva 2020 program on the 22nd of September, at RTP Madeira, for the item 'The doctor responds'. For more than half an hour, live, Miguel Silva clarified doubts from viewers of the journalist Xana Abreu program , on topics as varied as the correct diet for patients who had intestinal tumors, what to do in case of persistent back pain or taking vaccines. Miguel Silva is a general surgeon, dedicated to oncological and benign intestinal and colorectal pathology, but, he explained at the outset: “I am a doctor first of all. And, as a clinical director of Hospital da Luz, I have to keep in mind the series and the variety of pathologies of patients who come to us and know how to respond to them". For this reason, the specialist did not avoid any of the spectators questions, always trying to clarify doubts related to COVID-19 and the flu, the allergies of the time or even the vision problems related to cataracts . And guiding the spectators, whenever necessary, to their attending physicians or to specialists in each of the areas covered. The Madeira Viva program is a highly successful daily talk show from RTP Madeira, presented by Xana Abreu and where traffic, consumer rights, health and well-being, cooking and legal solutions are addressed in everyday problems day. Miguel Silva is a general surgeon and, since March of this year, he has assumed the position of clinical director of Hospital da Luz Funchal and Hospital da Luz Clínica do Caniço.
