Dr bezerra de menezes biography books

"The Doctor of the Poor"

 

Dr. Bezerra de Menezes' view on the medical profession:

 

“A doctor is not entitled to finish a meal, nor to ask if it is far or near when an afflicted person knocks on the door.

Those who do not help because they are entertaining guests or because they have worked long hours and are tired, or because it is too late at night, bad road or bad weather, because it’s far or is on the top of the hill, or above all, those who ask for a car for those who have not even resources to pay for the prescription, or that say to those who are crying at their door to seek for another doctor — those are not doctors, but rather medicine dealers, who work for the income and to pay off their college debts.

Those are unfortunates who send to others the angel of charity that came to pay them a visit and that brought to them the only source that could satiate their thirst for Spiritual weal