César Carballo

César Carballo Cardona is a Spanish physician and emergency medicine coordinator. He is the current chief of the emergency service of the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and vice president of the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES) of Madrid. He is a prolific television guest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain,[1] having been called by the Huffington Post one of the most recognizable medical experts of the Spanish crisis.[2][3]

César Carballo
Born
César Carballo Cardona

Madrid, Spain
EducationUniversity of Alcalá
Occupation
  • Physician
  • TV guest
  • medical expert
Years active2020-present (media)

Education and early work

Carballo graduated from the University of Alcalá, after which he specialized in family medicine and emergency medicine in the Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, amassing a series of master's degrees in those and other fields. Afterwards he worked in several of the main hospitals in the community of Madrid, among them La Paz, Infanta Sofia and Ramón y Cajal, the last one with special notability. In 2014, he became vice president of SEMES Madrid.[4] In 2019 his tenure became controversial upon being demoted from his job in La Paz without having fulfilled his obligatory time, which SEMES denounced as a product of further irregularities on the center. Before his removal, Carballo had asked for more human resources to cover summer months.[5]

Career

In January 2020, Carballo started appearing in national television as part of the board of experts gathered in investigation program Cuarto Milenio, where he analyzed the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.[6] The program, whose medical guests voiced predictions about the pandemic's evolution in Spain that turned out accurate,[6][7] was put on hiatus on March due to the crisis,[8] after which Carballo joined Milenio Live and La Estirpe de los Libres, YouTube programs used by Jiménez to replace his television activities.[9][10] Carballo participated in Cuarto Milenio's return episode in September,[11] and later became part of a weekly monograph on the pandemic, Horizonte, also directed by Jiménez and broadcast in Telecinco (later in Cuatro). and also directed by Jiménez.[2] During this time, he became also part of the usual cast of several unrelated shows on national TV, among them La Sexta Noche in La Sexta and Espejo Público en Antena 3.[2]

Carballo became known for a stance highly critical of the pandemic's management by the Spanish government,[12][13] to the point of asking for the resignation of the chairman of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, in one of his first appearances on La Sexta Noche in November.[14]

The same month, he introduced in Horizonte a lip protector model, FreeLips, designed by himself to avoid the virus' transmission through the surfaces of cups.[15] Audience in social media was divided, attracting both interest on the device and criticism against its commerciality, though demand of the product was so high that its website crashed in a short time.[16][17]

On January 13, 2021, Carballo became one of the first sanitary workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer, including in his Twitter account a video of it and encouraging citizens to follow his example, though not without criticizing again the governmental management of the vaccination protocols.[18][19] Only two days later, Carballo was involved in a in Twitter conflict with Lluís Serra from the government of Canarias' scientifical committe, who accused Carballo of speaking without knowledge about public welfare,[20] which was followed by Carballo sending him his own professional resume on said field.[21]

Media career

Television

Internet
  • Milenio Live (2020-present), YouTube and Mtmad.
  • La Estirpe de los Libres (2020), YouTube.

References
  1. "César Carballo, en 'Horizonte': "Me sorprende que Fernando Simón siga en su cargo, no ha dado ni una"" (in Spanish). 20minutos. January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  2. Pascual, Alfredo (January 22, 2021). "El doctor César Carballo estalla y hace la pregunta más dura e incómoda" (in Spanish). Huffington Post. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  3. "El popular médico César Carballo rebate a Fernando Simón: "No estoy de acuerdo"" (in Spanish). Huffington Post. October 23, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  4. "César Carballo Cardona, nombrado vicepresidente de SEMES Madrid" (in Spanish). Acta Sanitaria. February 19, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  5. "Denuncian "irregularidades" en el cese del responsable de Urgencias de La Paz" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. July 31, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  6. "Iker Jiménez responde a quienes dicen que predijo la crisis del coronavirus" (in Spanish). Huffington Post. April 13, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  7. "Iker Jiménez, el 'alarmista' al que nadie hizo caso: así advertía sobre el coronavirus" (in Spanish). El Español. March 23, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  8. "El colaborador de «Cuarto Milenio» que predijo el caos en España por el coronavirus" (in Spanish). ABC. March 30, 2020. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  9. "El doctor César Carballo relata el horror que se vive en el hospital: "La experiencia es aterradora"" (in Spanish). Mtmad. May 9, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  10. "Iker Jiménez "despierta" a media España con estas verdades sobre el coronavirus" (in Spanish). ESdiario. April 11, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  11. "'Cuarto milenio' ya tiene fecha de regreso a Cuatro" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. August 25, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  12. Aranda, Rafa (November 6, 2020). ""Cuanto más tardemos en declarar el confinamiento domiciliario, va a ser peor"" (in Spanish). AS. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  13. "El doctor César Carballo estalla contra Illa y Simón: "Por favor, que la gente que se proteja, ya que nuestros líderes no lo hacen"" (in Spanish). Marca. December 14, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  14. "El doctor César Carballo pide la dimisión de Fernando Simón: "En un país asiático lo habría hecho hace bastante tiempo"" (in Spanish). La Sexta. December 14, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  15. "Un protector labial, el invento del doctor César Carballo para evitar contagios por Covid-19" (in Spanish). 20minutos. November 30, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  16. Zamora, Susana (November 26, 2020). "El invento para beber en los vasos de los bares sin contagiarse de Covid-19" (in Spanish). Diariosur. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  17. Roldán, A. (November 26, 2020). "El anuncio en el programa de Iker Jiménez de un protector labial contra el coronavirus desata la locura: "No tenéis vergüenza"" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  18. "El doctor Carballo muestra su vacunación y pide ir más rápido: "Os animo a todos a hacerlo"" (in Spanish). La Sexta. January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  19. "El doctor César Carballo se vacuna contra el coronavirus: "No tengo ni dolor en el brazo"" (in Spanish). Telecinco. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  20. "Lluís Serra afea al mediático doctor de urgencias César Carballo sus encendidas críticas contra la gestión de la pandemia: "¡Basta ya de cuñaos!"" (in Spanish). ElDiario. January 14, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
  21. "El doctor César Carballo responde a Lluís Serra tras criticar sus apariciones en televisión" (in Spanish). ElDiario. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021.
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