Aportes para la historia del médico laboratorista y los laboratorios clínicos de la Ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The preparation academic of Clinical Pathologists or Clinical Laboratory Physicians started from the first decade of the previous century in Ecuador. First as a practical learning experience with a mentor, then independently by going to a foreign country to study, taking actualization courses and keeping knowledge abreast of modern techniques and procedures. Early Clinical Pathologists began working in the ancient Hospital “San Vicente de Paul”. The first laboratory tests were conducted from 1912, after the return of Dr. Emiliano J. Crespo A., from Europe, who initiated studies of parasitology and bacteriology. The first Clinical Laboratory was founded en Hospital “San Vicente de Paul” assigned to Professor Manuel MaloCrespo, after his early death, succeeded by Dr. Juan Cuesta y Cuesta and since 1933 Dr. Timoleón Carrera Cobos formed a prestigious School of Clinical Laboratory Physicians. Its graduates exercised this specialty in the second half of the twentieth century and have also continued forming many current Clinical Laboratory Technicians city of Cuenca. The article finishes by highlighting the importance of Clinical Pathology Physicians today, not only in general medicine, but in most specialties, diagnosis, progression, prognosis and disease monitoring.