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...much as to be a writer and historian. Though he seemed to be drifting when he entered medical school, it was there that he found his life work: "Heart study was my passion." Last week, celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, 57, ducked his head modestly as topflight cardiologists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe blew him compliments...
...member of the audience called Chávez' institute "the heart capital of the world." Baltimore's famed Pediatrician Helen Taussig, whose researches made possible the "blue baby" operation, said: "It is [Chávez] who made this a great institute ... a Mecca for all young people who want to study the heart. We can rejoice when we have the opportunity to come here ourselves...
Triple Ambition. In the Mexico of 1920, heart disease was as merciless a killer as elsewhere-perhaps worse, because the country had one of the world's highest rates of rheumatic fever.* Young Dr. Chávez wangled scholarships so that he could study the heart in Paris. Vienna and Brussels. Back home, he started a cardiology service in Mexico City's- General Hospital and gathered around him a group of equally dedicated physicians. In the early '30s, they got the idea for "an institute that would be at once a modern hospital for heart patients...
...team was ready: all it needed was the institute. Dr. Chávez, who seems to know everybody of influence in Mexican business and politics, promoted 600,000 pesos (then $166,560) from private donors, 1,500,000 pesos from the government. Then he spent eight years directing the building of the institute. Each room, he insisted, must be as comfortable as in a modern luxury hotel. Its surgeries glittered with the world's best equipment. Its motto: Amor scientiaque insermant cordi (Let love and science serve the heart...
Tradition in the Making. For years Director Chávez, a successful practitioner himself, would take not a peso for his love and services to the institute. (The law now insists on a nominal salary.) When the ultramodern building, with its walls of white concrete and glass, was opened, it could care for 12,000 patients annually. Dr. Chávez was soon after more money, got 5,000,000 pesos to double its capacity. Now the institute treats 24,000 heart sufferers each year, 1,272 as in-patients in its 150 beds (divided equally among men, women...