Asunción: He always goes from one place to another with a long beard dyed white, with a humble character and a soft voice, but when he speaks no one can resist listening to him. Spending much of his time, Dr. House at his small desk strewn with books, like in a hermit’s cave.
This is how those who had the pleasant opportunity to meet Dr. Get to know Miguel Irrazabal up close. His character goes unnoticed on the internet as he prefers to stay away from the media, but his talent reaches everyone with his every action full of humanity.
The gratitude of his patients and colleagues comes immediately, the patients report on social networks.
“A year ago, Dr. Irrazabal saved my mother. We called him in desperation and that same evening he came by to examine her. He accepted her difficult case and would not rest until he got her out of the critical phase. Thanks to him we have her alive and in good health today,” commented Allison Bernal, a Twitter user who described him as an eminence of Paraguayan medicine.
The post generated a series of comments that showed the feelings of those who eventually received his help. Quite a few report: “May God give you health so that you can continue to help so many people.”
The following are additional comments from patients who have been with Dr. House had contact:
“In 2010 I had dengue hemorrhagic fever and was in intensive care. Once I woke up and saw him with his white beard and I said ‘hello gray eminence’. He just laughed”.
“Eight years ago, Dr. Irrazabal with me a rare disease. After a long search for an answer, he is a genius and an enlightened person of Paraguayan medicine, humble, generous, a true human being.”
“There are heroes without baseball caps, with beards and light blue shirts. He’s a guy who doesn’t know when he’s asleep, he makes his rounds of hospitals until dawn. He’s in the office until 11 p.m., an eminence grise.”
Senator and doctor Desirée Masi admitted that among her colleagues he was the Paraguayan Dr. House is called. He is a person who reads a lot, listens and lets patients finish, taking all the time to examine them as the old masters of medicine taught.
“He is a person with a lot of empathy. Within minutes he manages to make an accurate diagnosis, which is later substantiated by studies,” said Masi.
According to the senator, the technological part will never replace the dialogue with the patient and Dr. Irrazabal so human. “He’s a person who has thousands of books in his private practice. Nearby you can see people sitting 3 or 4 blocks ahead, waiting there to be checked by the doctor. When you leave there is a box and you leave whatever money you want 5,000 Gs or 10,000 Gs whatever you can pay or if you can’t pay nothing. this is dr Irrazabal,” said Masi.
She recalled the time when she was an intern at the Institute of Tropical Medicine and when the first dengue epidemic almost reached Paraguay, little was known about the disease. She had a fever and the doctors told her it was meningitis. “I was in a lot of pain in my head and body. They already prepared a lumbar puncture for me. Around 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m., Dr. Irrazabal and asked me: ‘What do you have?’ He asked me a few questions and said, ‘That’s dengue!’ Everyone was wondering what dengue was, to which he replied that we were on the verge of a very large epidemic of this disease.”
The doctor stays away from media fame and recognition.
According to the doctor and senator, it was a “big struggle” for him to use a cell phone.
“Those who see him with his long beard think that he is even from Algiers, but he is a very shy person, he speaks softly all the time, but everyone pays attention to him.
Masi just hopes that Dr. House has long to live and those who need his wisdom can still enjoy his company.
“We love him and admire him in ways he can’t even imagine.”
The photo was taken by Twitter users of the unsuspecting doctor.
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