Recuerdo médico del Dr Salvador Allende Gossens / Remembrance of Dr Salvador Allende Gossens

RESUMEN

El último Ministro de Salud (1972-73) del derrocado Gobierno del Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens revisa la vigencia actual de las premisas teóricas avanzadas por el Dr. Allende durante su carrera médica, parlamentaria y presidencial del diagnóstico y análisis presentado en el libro ‘La Realidad médico-social chilena’, escrito por el Dr. Allende en 1939, cuando era Ministro de Salud (Presidente Aguirre-Cerda), a las principales orientaciones de política y programas en el Gobierno de 1971 – 73. Constata que la vigencia es total.

ABSTRACT

Dr. A. Jirón, last Minister of Health in Dr. Salvador Allende’s Government of Chile (1971-73), reviews the current validity, as presented in technical journals, of the theoretical health standings of Dr. Allende during his medical, parliamentarian and presidential career, as already presented in his 1939 book ‘The medical and social reality of Chile’, written when he was Minister of Health in President’s Aguirre. Cerda government (1938-1941). Thirty years before his Presidency, seventy-five years before present day, the coincidence is total.