About che guevara biography revolutionary medicine

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On Revolutionary Medicine

By Che Guevara, 1960

"Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries.

Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger, and disease ; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money ; with the stupefication provoked by continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland.

And I began to realize that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming a famous scientist or making a significant contribution to medical science : I wanted to help those people.

"How does one actually carry out a work of social welfare?

How does one unite individual endeavor with the needs of