[Don Rodolfo Armas Cruz: physician, professor and teacher]

The present issue of Revista Médica de Chile contains tributes to the late Profesor Rodolfo Armas Cruz prepared by the Editors and, by invitation by two of his closest disciples and collaborators. With the decease of Professor Dr Rodolfo Armas Cruz on November 26, 1995, disappeared a representative of a medical generation, whose unique work transformed national medical tasks, lending prestige to Chilean medicine. His peers recognized in him as a distinguished master and his work was so vast that is difficult to underscore a particular aspect. Over and above his books and scientific reports, remains the testimony of hundreds of his disciples distributed along Chile that, marked by his teachings trying to follow his path. The honors, awards and titles never separated him from an austere way of life, dedicated to work besides the ill, his students and his beloved Medical Service at the San Juan de Dios Hospital. His transcendental name and work, incorporated to the history of Chilean medicine, will be an example for actual and future medical generations.