RESUMEN
Se explica un error relativo al número de médicos en los primeros años de Gobierno Revolucionario, que se ha repetido con gran frecuencia. Se muestran resultados tomados de fuentes oficiales de ese período y se reconstruye las cifras correctas para el período 1959-1968. Se aportan cifras de graduados de medicina y médicos que emigraron en los años referidos(AU)
This article offered an explanation on a relative mistake about the number of physicians in the first years of the revolutionary government, a mistake that has been very frequently repeated. Evidence from official sources of that period was shown whereas the correct figures for the years 1959 through 1968 were rescued. Pieces of information were given about the number of medical graduates and physicians that migrated to other countries in the abovementioned years(AU)