Adib Jatene: June 4, 1929 - November 14, 2014

Adib Jatene: June 4, 1929 November 14, 2014

Professor Adib Domingos Jatene, indelible mark of pioneering spirit, honesty, wisdom and accurate surgical technique , left this life on the 14 th of November. It saddened the entire Brazilian nation, impoverished without his striking and distinguished presence, always dedicated to healing the heart of ill patients and Brazil's flaws. Certainly, as Socrates, Professor Jatene is not dead! He wil...

Adib Domingos Jatene, 1929-2014

Medicine; Cardiology; Culture; Career Mobility; Faculty/history. Or simply Adib to me, was born in Xapuri (AC). At birth, a voice (that of God!) made itself heard in the following words: “Maktub: this newborn will distinguish himself among many and, like few others, will know how to lead himself and lead those who seek him. The work that will be imposed will be twice the common, and his dynamis...

Adib Domingos Jatene (1929-2014)

Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc | Braz J Cardiovasc Surg rofessor Adib Domingos Jatene, indelible mark of pioneering spirit, honesty, wisdom and accurate surgical technique, left this life on the 14th of November. It saddened the entire Brazilian nation, impoverished without his striking and distinguished presence, always dedicated to healing the heart of ill patients and Brazil’s flaws. It especially ...

Adib Jatene, an immense legacy to Brazilian medicine.

November 14, 2014, will be marked forever in the history of Brazil as the day that the national medicine lost one of its greatest references: cardiologist Adib Jatene. Born in Xapuri, Acre, son of a Lebanese rubber tapper, he wrote one of the finest chapters in the history of Brazilian medicine. With a medical degree from University of São Paulo’s Faculty of Medicine (FMUSP), awarded in 1953, w...

Valedictory Address *Read 13th November 1929.