Donato D’Ângelo (1919–2014): a giant in many aspects
2014; Brazilian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology; Volume: 49; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.rboe.2014.05.001
ISSN2255-4971
Autores ResumoChristina, Isabel and all of us", in the Serrana region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, and was considered to be a giant in many, many respects.He entered the Fluminense School of Medicine, in Niterói, at the age of 14 years and graduated at the age of 20 years, in 1939.He is considered to have been the youngest doctor in Brazil (profile published by SBCOC).He spent one year and two months at the Bologna Institute, in Italy, under the guidance of Vitorio Putti, where he sought to learn about post-war advances in orthopedics.There too, he established his liking for the arts, literature and history.Back in Brazil, he coordinated the installation of several orthopedics services, thereby consolidating the specialty, in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Ipanema and São Zacharias hospitals) and in Petrópolis (Hospital Santa Tereza).In the latter city, he founded the School of Medicine and was the titular professor of orthopedics for 31 years (where he established an orthopedics training center of excellence), and was also the titular professor of the rehabilitation school of the Catholic University.In Teresópolis, he was head of the orthopedics service from 1973 to 1976.Humanism was a marked trait of Donato's professional life.He had the ability, shared by few others, to move between the scientific and literary worlds, and between medicine for wealthy people and medicine for socially excluded people.He attended children of the area of Cachoeiro do Itapemirim who would become the icon of the "Young Vanguard", without ever charging a penny.Despite receiving homage several times from the "king" Roberto Carlos, Donato never took advantage of his unaccustomed professional fame.In fact, through his silence, he taught us how to maintain ethics and not to use the names of famous people to accumulate clientele."He was a very dear person, with incomparable technical competence, and was extremely dedicated to his patients.We would like to train more doctors like him", said Maria Isabel, of the Petrópolis School of Medicine.
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