Adib Jatene: June 4, 1929 November 14, 2014

Professor Adib Domingos Jatene, indelible mark of pioneering spirit, honesty, wisdom and accurate surgical technique , left this life on the 14 th of November. It saddened the entire Brazilian nation, impoverished without his striking and distinguished presence, always dedicated to healing the heart of ill patients and Brazil's flaws. Certainly, as Socrates, Professor Jatene is not dead! He will live on his mission of great physician, dedicated teacher, inventor, class leader, competent administrator in higher academic and government positions and an exemplary citizen. The legacy left by the thousands of disciples who he formed, and friends who had the privilege to live with him over the 85 years of his fruitful existence is eternal, therefore, his lessons will continue to be propagated throughout the ages in a chain of ideas and dignified conduct of the great leaders of national and international opinion. It should serve as an example the trajectory of this person whose motto was be helpful to others, without that it may cost him any effort, therefore, it was of his nature the desire to serve the nation, to the best of his great director capacity. Born in the wilds of the Amazon, in the state of Acre, in Xapu-ri, still today a frontier of civilization in the pristine forest breast. Founded in 1902 by Brazilian it was the focus of the revolution of which resulted in the incorporation of this Bolivian territory to Brazil. Adib was the son of Lebanese immigrants who in search of Eldorado, braved the unknown in the early twentieth century, going to live in the jungle. His father, Domingos Jatene, was rubber trader, the white gold (Latex) extracted from native rubber trees. In one of his forays into thick woods, he returned with high fever and jaundice. In a few days he died! At that time Adib was two years old. He lived there until he was 10, when his mother, with the other children, moved to the State of Minas Gerais, in the city of Uberlândia, where civilization was already present. Professor Adib Jatene personally operated more than 20,000 patients.