DBWI: Dr. Ernesto Guvera has died at the age of 81

Wow, he was such an brilliant mind in his field, and his treatment of Lepers is what brought about an cure and an complete change of perspective on how they should be treated by the church. He will be missed.
 
It is a great pity how the Catholic Church treats its best, isn't it? A man like Guevara, highly educated and purpose-driven, would have had every chance to make a stellar career outside the priesthood. If he had decided to go into private practice or government service (IIRC there was some period in his life where he considered emigrating to the USA), he could easily have earned a fortune, a professorship or a ministerial post and multiple awards. Instead, despite his many publications and great research work, he was left to languish in a bush hospital and only trotted out for conferences, and all because of his stance on divorce. He wasn't even a Liberation Theologist - by the standards of the Latin American church he was barely a liberal. But I guess being friends with John XXIII is a millstone around anyone's neck these days.

Damn, his Thalidomide study alone should have earned him the Nobel Price if there was any justice in the world.
 

Hendryk

Banned
I've heard that he chose the logo of his world-famous charitable NGO La Poderosa--a doctor in a lab coat riding a motorcycle--from the trip across Latin America he made as a university student. It was during that trip that he discovered his religious calling, while doing volunteer work in a Church-run leprosery.
 
Are you people talking about the well known Guevara or ...someone else?

Dr Ernesto Guevara, the man who cured leprosy. Irealise thattechnically, heis supposed to be Father Guevara, but he came to the priesthood late and his fame is as a medical researcher and practitioner, so of course everyone knows him as Dr Guevara. Who were you thinking of?

OOP: Obviously Che. He was a medical doctor before he decided to become a revolutionary, and a man with his drive, charisma and enterprise might well grow to greatstature in other pursuits. I decided to throw in thalidomide because that is a discovery you can easily make outside the lab, by sheer accident.
 

The Vulture

Banned
My grandfather actually had the honor of meeting the Good Doctor on a business trip to Haiti in 1964 as he was working with his future partner, Dr. Francois Duvalier, on yaws in the poorer districts. Guevara and Duvalier made a great team, the contributions they made in the Caribbean and Central America both independently and as a team have certainly made a difference in the area. I have an old black and white photo my grandfather took with both Guevara and Duvalier.

RIP, Dr. Guevara. You will be missed.
 
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