He is appropriately considered as the father of anesthesia in Colombia, because he defended its cause and taught the art and science of anesthesia to countless students. In his times, physicians were not interested in anesthesia because it was far of what was expected from this profession; however he still persevered teaching nonmedical personnel and with humility he showed distinguished surgeons of the times, that anesthesiology was a specialty in itself as much as part of internal medicine or surgery, but that it was independent with its own life 2.
Es considerado el padre de la anestesia en Colombia, con justicia, porque defendió su causa, y formó en el arte y en la ciencia médica aplicada a la anestesiología a innumerables estudiantes; en aquel entonces a los médicos no les interesaba la anestesiología, porque distaba inmensamente de la profesión respetada de la actualidad, pero él la impuso, formando personal no médico, y con humildad les expresó a los encopetados cirujanos de la época que la anestesiología era una especialidad por si misma, que tenía mucho de medicina interna y de cirugía, pero era independiente, con vida propia 2.