Guillermo Brinck Pasvahl, the Great Master of Chilean Neurology

Abstract

   The author remembers the Great Master of the Chilean Neurology, the Professor Guillermo Brinck, which lessons at the patient's side and using the Socratic method were extremely didactic and the sharp dialogues between the master and the pupil. Later, at the Calvo Mackenna Hospital he would meet Mariano Latorre Blanco, the first Chilean neuropediatrician, a fine clinical observer  when tomography and magnetic resonance imaging did not  exist,   and also the neurosurgeon Luciano Basauri, genius and figure in this field, from whom he would learn two principles basics in patient care.