123- FERNANDO RIBEIRO FIGUEIRAS

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SALVADOR, BAHIA (BRAZIL)

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FERNANDO RIBEIRO FIGUEIRAS

FERNANDO FILGUEIRAS WAS A MEDICAL EXTREMELY CHARITABLE

 

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCE:
Fernando Filgueira - Available in http://hportugues.com.br/noticias/outra
S_edições/profissionais/docimagebig.2005-01-06.972885179. Accessed January 30, 2009.

Born in Salvador, at the beginning of the secunda decade of the twentieth century.
Of humble origin, could, with sacrifice, and finish the preparations to join the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, in which he graduated in 1941.
Graduate, began long career of over fifty years of unbroken and fruitful activity.
Was present in the operating rooms of almost every hospital in Salvador, spreading examples of competence, skill and generosity.
At the Hospital Santa Izabel, Santa Casa Misericordia, remained for thirty years. At the Hospital Getúlio Vargas, a former Emergency Department, worked for more than two decades. In Portuguese Hospital of Bahia, started its activities in the decade and sixty, and remained there for decades.
In the Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, taught neurosurgery, beginning and ending as Assistant Professor and Adjunct Professor.
Social Security hospitals, loaned, likewise, invaluable service.
It was the prototype of the selfless and dedicated doctor. He worked, often more than sixteen hours a day, performing surgeries large.
Ever the professional work linked to the reward. The surgical procedures that he practiced, had its presence from beginning to end, the patient is not away for any reason.
I loved the patients as if they were his own children. The rich and the poor, relieve the same affection and the same solidarity.
It is commonly said that never had to ponder fees. When asked, he answered: "Pay what you can, whenever you want!
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Numerous testimonials attest to the character of Fernando Filgueiras:
"Fernando is a full existence Filgueiras and clean. Never pegged their work to financial rewards. It was not her way to confuse the sacred profession of medicine with lesser interests. Nobody has supplanted the originality that is the hallmark of his work more acute. That was what is and what it is, without ever being alienated from their origins. Fernando Filgueira, physician and citizen, a legendary figure of Bahia "- Rodolfo Teixeira.
"The team of Dr. Fernando Filgueira worked as an orchestra. At that time, without today's technology and without the electric scalpel, the surgeries performed by him almost no bleeding, thanks to his craft and technical procedure. It was always cheerful, humorous and extremely well-connected with fellow "- Paulo Bittencourt.
"It's a very admired by his steely dedication to work, to patients and colleagues. As a teacher made an example of how to be a doctor in the broadest sense of the word, and pass on his great knowledge in the field of surgery "- Vicente Araújo.
"It's a rare person in the professional sense and humanity, whom we consider as a full medical, revered by all its infinite qualities" - Renato Carvalho.
Died in Salvador on February 17, 2010.