Miguel Pérez Carreño
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Miguel Pérez Carreño (1904–1966) was a
Education
For elementary school Pérez-Carreño attended the Bouquet school and high school at the Federal College of
Career
Perez-Carreño cultivated a practical, investigative and academic approach to medicine. He considered diagnosis an art that had to be accomplished not only through clinical history, but through long, sustained, conversation with the patient about their health problems and living conditions. According to Dr. Elias Rodriguez Azpurua, Perez-Carreño possessed the innate qualities of a teacher, among which stood out: his facility with words, his practicality to focus on issues and clinical cases in a comprehensible manner, using appropriate and pleasant language and making associations between clinical experiences and operative anecdotes experienced by him.
Beginning in 1936, he conducted research and descriptions on colorectal pericolonic appendicular syndrome caused by parasites, and eight years later presented a paper on this topic at the National Academy of Medicine, the importance of which focused on developing a surgical treatment for the disease.[3]
He worked on the study, analysis and evaluation of definitive treatment for surgical diseases. In
Active in the Caracas Polyclinic, the José María Vargas Hospital and the University Hospital, Perez-Carreño was head of descriptive practical anatomy procedures, Head of surgical medicine, Chief of Clinical Surgery and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, among other duties. He spent part of his last years on cancer research.
Miguel Perez-Carreno died in Caracas on June 22, 1966.[3]
Works and accomplishments
- Perez-Carreño published over 100 scientific research and a five volume work: Patología y Clínica Quirúrgica. (Pathology and Clinical Surgery).
- He directed over 20 degree works at the UCV.
- He founded the Venezuelan Society of Surgery and the Department of Research and Experimental Surgery of the Clinical Chair and Therapeutics at the Faculty of Medicine of the UCV.
- He established surgical services at the J.M. de los Rios Hospital.
References
- ^ Venezuela tuya.com. "Miguel Pérez Carreño". Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ a b c Johanna, Rodríguez R. "Dr. Miguel Pérez Carreño: Un innovador de la cirugía". imbiomed. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Mipunto.com. "Miguel Pérez Carreño". Archived from the original on 22 June 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2012.