Questions about Pedro and the memorial.

Pedro Moretti Guedes (1935–2010) was a clinician, surgeon and professor in São Paulo, registered with the CRM-SP under number 12002. He served the Campo Limpo neighbourhood, in the south of the city, from 1967 until the end of his life, and was also a swimming coach and author of health-education articles.

Yes. According to the reminiscences he left and the tribute written by his patients in 2010, Pedro treated people without financial means with the same care and without charging for the consultation. "He did not mind whether they were upper or lower class; what mattered to him was the patient's recovery", they wrote. The sentence "You don't know her life, so don't criticise her" was his answer to someone who criticised a patient who did not pay.

Humanism, listening and equality of care. He valued the clinical examination and time to talk, greeted each patient at the door with a hug, shared the credit for diagnoses with families and never put money before care. Patients called him "the doctor of body and soul".

He was born on 10 September 1935 in Piracicaba, in the interior of São Paulo state, sixth child of Maria Luiza Moretti Guedes and José Anthero Guedes, a railway worker. The certificate was drawn up in the Bom Retiro district of the capital, where the family lived.

On 17 February 2010, in Bragança Paulista, aged 74 years and five months. The seventh-day mass was celebrated in Campo Limpo on 25 February 2010.

He graduated in Medicine in Sorocaba in 1963 and did his residency at the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo. Before university he graduated from the CPOR, the Reserve Officers Training Centre.

In 1967. By 1998 the Diário Popular was already noting three decades of service in the neighbourhood. The Clínica Médica Campo Limpo stood at Rua Dr. Avelino Lemos Jr., 67.

A family compilation dated 18 October 2008 that gathers cases, stories, articles, photographs and documents linked to Pedro's professional life. It is the main source of the stories on this memorial.

No. They are historical documents published between 1992 and 2008. Medicine has changed since then. See a health professional for current advice.

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Through the contact page, which opens a direct conversation with Felipe Guedes, who is responsible for the memorial. People pictured and relatives have removal requests honoured without need for justification.

Felipe Guedes, Pedro's son, a Software Engineer and Systems Architect at fgxdev.com, a System Design specialist who builds technology to accelerate science.