Dates, places and what remained.
Each milestone says where the information came from. When something rests only on family memory, it is presented as memory.
- 10 September
Born in Piracicaba, São Paulo
Sixth child of Maria Luiza Moretti Guedes and José Anthero Guedes, a railway worker. The certificate is drawn up on 26 September in the Bom Retiro district of the capital, stamped by the State Railway Workers' Fund.
Source: Birth certificate; family record sheet Baptised
The photograph of the baptism, held by his godmother Georgina, is the oldest image in the archive.
Source: Captioned photographCPOR and swimming
Graduates from the Reserve Officers Training Centre. Around the same time he is a swimming coach and sits on the Technical Council of the São Paulo Swimming Federation.
Source: "CPOR graduation" photograph; header of a swimming articleGraduates in Medicine in Sorocaba
Completes his medical degree, according to a historical report kept by the family.
Source: Diário Popular, 1998Hospital das Clínicas and SAMDU
Medical residency at the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo. Then about three years at the Emergency Home Medical Care Service.
Source: Reminiscences of a DoctorArrives in Campo Limpo
Settles in the south of São Paulo and begins a relationship with the neighbourhood that would span more than four decades.
Source: Diário Popular, 1998Surgery, practice and teaching
Surgeon for adults and children at the Clínica Médica Campo Limpo. Professor of Surgical Technique and Abdominal Surgery at Universidade São Francisco, Bragança Paulista.
Source: Clinic advertisements; press clippingThe "Does Cholesterol Kill?" series
Publishes in the Jornal Zona Sul the first health-education texts preserved in the archive.
Source: Archive clippingsTrip to Florence
A photograph on the train, "On the way to Florence 1993", records the trip to Italy.
Source: Captioned photograph"Doctor has served the neighbourhood for 30 years"
The Diário Popular publishes a report on his long service in Campo Limpo and his practice as a family doctor.
Source: Diário PopularIntense writing
Writes on generics, health plans, public health, emergencies, laboratory tests and prevention. In 2005 the Osasco Official Gazette lists him among the city's physicians.
Source: Clippings; Osasco Official Gazette- 18 October
Reminiscences of a Doctor
The family gathers stories, articles, documents and photographs in a dated compilation.
Source: Reminiscences of a Doctor - 17 February
Dies in Bragança Paulista
Aged 74 years and five months. The seventh-day mass is celebrated in Campo Limpo on 25 February, with a tribute read by relatives, friends and patients.
Source: Family record sheet; handwritten tribute Masses in his memory
Notices in the Folha de S.Paulo record celebrations in his memory in Campo Limpo and elsewhere.
Source: Folha de S.Paulo
A story that can still grow
Relatives, former students and former patients who have dates, diplomas, photographs, letters or clippings can help complete this timeline through the contact page.
ContactFelipe Guedes did not grow up with his father. He knows Pedro through the stories, and loves him for them. What he keeps most is the doctor who treated for free those who could not pay: a way of looking at people, not at money, that Felipe carries with him.