Foreword by Natalia Fernández
This small volume, with a foreword and translation of Natalia Fernandez, is organized into three sections that compile the fundamental writings of the legendary Canadian doctor.

In the first block, Bethune vigorously defends universal health care, in which the doctor is a public servant and the sick to be cared for regardless of their social background or their purchasing power; the second tells the chilling facts that had to witness, when he went as a medical brigade and the Spanish Civil War, during the exodus from the city of Malaga on the road to Almería; and the third looks at, with a cosmic vital fatigue life of deprivation and absolute surrender to the medical cause in China punished for the war against Japan.

Is this the first time you edited in Castilian, gathered in one volume, his writings and notes. It is a sober, hard, heartbreaking texts. His fierce defense of universal health care is more relevant and important than ever.

[...] Wounds as puddles dry, hardened with dark brown mud. Cracked edges wounds, crowned with black gangrene. Neat wounds, hidden under deep abscess, digging into the firm muscles and around them, like a fucking river flowing around the muscles and between them like a warm current. Wounds pouring out, rotten orchids or carnations trampled flowers terrible meat. Wounds from the dark blood clot springs forth, mixed with the ominous gas bubbles floating in the fresh blood of the secondary bleeding continues. [...]