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25 Years After the Death of René Favaloro: How Were His Last Hours and the Seven Letters He Left as Testimony
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On July 29, 2000, Argentina was dawning with news that shocked the whole country: the death of Dr. René Favaloro. 25 years later, his figure was still remembered not only for having transformed the history of medicine, but also for his tireless struggle for a more just and accessible health system. At 77 years old, Favaloro left behind an invaluable scientific legacy, but also a letter that revealed the pain and frustration of a man who, beyond …
On July 29, 2000, the doctor who revolutionized cardiovascular surgery took his life. Behind his decision, were the debts of his foundation and his final texts that still question Argentine society.
On Saturday, July 29, 2000, Argentina dawned with news as painful as it was shocking: René Favaloro, one of the highest references of medicine in the country and in the world, had been found without life in his home. The doctor had shot himself in the heart with a 38 caliber revolver in the bathroom of his department of Palermo, in the city of Buenos Aires. That day he marked a before and after not only in the medical sphere, but in the social c…
"You don't have to go out of your way," René Favaloro once said in an interview. It is that compliments, decorations and international honorary titles were part of his routine, however, modesty was one of the characteristics of the platenian cardiosurgeon. This July 29th marks the 25th anniversary of his death. From a humble family (his father was a cabinetmaker and his mother a seamstress), Favaloro did high school at the National College of La…
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the death of the prestigious surgeon René Favaloro, creator of the technique of the pass aorto-coronario. In La Pampa he worked as a rural doctor in the town of Jacinto Arauz. Motivated by despair, exhaustion and institutional abandonment, the cardiosurgeon was found lifeless in the bathroom of his department on Saturday, July 29, 2000. He shot himself in the heart with a calibre 38 revolver. Favaloro was 77 y…
On a day like today, but 25 years ago, the emblematic Platonian doctor René Favaloro was at home about to make a fatal decision: after showering and shaving, he took a gun and shot himself in the heart. His farewell was planned to the last detail. He left seven letters written by hand to give a channel to the feelings of defeat that overwhelmed him in his last days, among his claims to the Argentine State, his financial drowning of his foundatio…
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