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If his friend Camilo José Cela had written the story of His Excellency Doctor Don Pedro Guillén García, and he had done it in the first person, he could possibly have started his writing with these words: “Thank you I give with an excess of gratitude for being from La Algaida, a district of the municipality of Archena.

I have never forgotten where I come from or who helped me.

My father, Pedro, was an honest worker, who raised his work as a farmer in the Vega del Segura to the art category, in love with Isabel, my mother, a very intelligent woman.

To them I owe the sacrifice and generosity for others, and the interest in the novelties of the passing of the days.

And, in the same order, I must quote my blood brothers and the political brothers.

And, in addition, to Pilar Vicente, my dearest wife, an essential collaborator in my efforts and an excellent mother of my daughters Pilar, Marta and Isabel.

And my three sons-in-law and my eight grandchildren.

And to my teachers, classmates.

And to the completeness of my friends.

Well, life without the others, and especially without those who grant one's love, affection and friendship, is useless, and for a doctor of my specialty nothing worse than human impediments, which are precisely what he tries to avoid and / or overcome in each patient.

And for them I promise to be better every day because, whoever does not do so soon stops being good.

Know that the Murcians come to Madrid, as it is to come, to live the time that we had to live, to the rhythm, precisely, that that same time imposes on us, and to succeed �.

And it is that Pedro Guillen is able to be as enlightened as the Marquis de Iria and Nobel Prize for Literature.

The eminence linked to the eminence, and the clear truth and to the face.

The quoted words correspond, almost to the letter, with the initials of the incorporation speech as Academic of Number of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery of Pedro Guillén, which occupies the armchair number 39, succeeding Don Hipólito Durán Sacristán.

The Favorite Son of Archena embellished with an address that occupies one hundred and twenty-seven pages of wisdom and refers seventy-seven bibliographic citations, which summarize the knowledge accumulated by the holder of one of the most extraordinary curricula vitae in the history of Spanish medicine , which are extended for sixty years of studies and professional practice as a doctor of medicine, surgeon, teacher, researcher, manager and patron of world recognition.

Pedro Guillén participated in the introduction in Spain of arthroscopy in 1977, three years later through that route he managed to rebuild the ACL of a knee, and in 2007 he would invent and perform the first arthroscopy without wires;

he obtained his doctorate with a thesis where the cell is the star protagonist, in 1986;

he performed with his team of collaborators the first transplant in Spain of autologous chondrocytes to cure an acute knee injury;

founded the CEMTRO Clinic in 1998;

performed the first surgical intervention assisted with Google Glass, in 2013 from a global operating room;

He has published articles in Nature and Cell, Science, Lancet, SECOT, Cartilage.

And, as he would say, "a long etcetera."

All this was reflected in the brilliant response of the Academic of Number, Mr. Juan Jiménez Collado, who outlined the vital principles and scientific contributions of the new academic.

But if Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery is the most comprehensive specialty of all medical, the 206 bones, 650 muscles, the 360 ​​joints, the eighty-six billion neurons of Pedro Guillén's brain make him a very intelligent male , with an essential capacity: to be human.

The RANME is a mature destination for a doctor of young spirit, with a permanent commitment to the Regenerative Medicine of the Locomotor System, as well as with research, because as he reiterates “a hospital (a society) that does not investigate becomes impoverished�.

Pedro is a professional who speaks clearly and who, given the risks posed by advances, for example the possibility of modifying the genome at will and changing the human species, warns governments of their obligation to “develop norms or laws that control the laboratories in their work on genes or embryos �.

His secret confessed, he would like to "have more children", to advance in curative remedies, to return to the patient the capacities that the disease has kidnapped, and to "banish the unjustified talk, without guarantees, of stem cell therapies."

This is Pedro Guillén, an exceptional being, friend of his friends, as lovers of the truth committed and the exact reference, Camilo José Cela or José María García;

of bonhomy and efficiency as Alfonso Cavallé Sesé, as his admired team of collaborators at CEMTRO;

like his students, among which I highlight the orensano José Manuel Vázquez Álvarez, a genius;

and as natural as his dear brothers Paco and Gregorio and as his lovely sisters-in-law.

The Royal Academies are an inexcusable reference of eminence, its guarantors are its presidents, such as Joaquín Poch Broto, in Medicine, or Carmen Iglesias, in History -present in the act-, and its members.

The incorporation of Pedro Guillén is a spring of Archena that waters with knowing the Tree of Science to obtain, as their parents did, the best fruits.

Alberto Barciela

Journalist and friend of Pedro Guillén

Source: Alberto Barciela