Family medicine: A medical care alternative for Latin America

Aréchiga, Amador Flores; Heras, Hector Riquelme; Cantu, Idalia Quintanilla

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(85)90290-4

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“…15 Dr. Baz would go on to become the head of Mexico's Secretariat of Health and the governor of the State of Mexico. 16 Finally, another spectator of the surgery was Dr. Jacinto Segovia, a Spanish physician who was a former professor of surgical pathology at the University of Madrid and who exiled himself to Mexico at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. 17 The remaining members of the team were surgeon Everardo García Espino and anesthesiologist Salvador Méndez.…”

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The Death of Leon Trotsky

Soto‐Pérez‐de‐Celis

2010

Neurosurgery

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Leon Trotsky was one of the founders of the Soviet Union and an obvious candidate to replace Lenin after his death. Unfortunately for him, it was Joseph Stalin who came to power, and Trotsky went into a long forced exile that eventually took him to Mexico, where he found asylum. On August 20, 1940, a Stalinist agent wounded Trotsky in the head with an ice axe in his house in Coyoacán, Mexico. Just a few hours later, Mexican neurosurgeons operated on him at the Cruz Verde Hospital in Mexico City. The axe had broken Trotsky's parietal bone and, after tearing the meninges, had damaged the encephalon. Despite the care provided by physicians and nurses, Trotsky passed away 25 hours after he was attacked, a victim of bleeding and shock. This article presents a review of Trotsky's last day, with special emphasis on the doctors who performed the surgery and who took care of the Russian revolutionary in his final moments. The results of Trotsky's autopsy are also discussed. The assassination of Leon Trotsky is one of the most dramatic events of the first half of the 20th century to have taken place on Mexican soil, and those final hours are an important moment in the history of Mexican neurosurgery and in the history of the world.

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The Death of Leon Trotsky

Soto‐Pérez‐de‐Celis

2010

Neurosurgery

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“…The 30 years' experience [12] providing comprehensive care to our patients is presented in a very simple and practical way based on a methodology called Working with Families described by Janet Christie-Seely [13].…”

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