“My vocation for medicine and my patients nation in my hogar”

Share time with family, run, attend patients, conduct investigations and establish a foundation. This page summarizes the day and day of Dr. Oscar Soto Raíces, who is 20 years old dedicated to rheumatology, a frame of health specialized in diseases of the skin, joints and ligaments of the human body.

Dr. Oscar Soto Raíces, Rheumatologist.
Dr. Oscar Raíces, Rheumatologist

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Medicine and rheumatology in its life

Since then, Soto Raíces has dedicated his professional life to the field of medicine. For a lad, she goes to his father to disassemble as a clinical psychologist and to his mother working with his spouse, and by another, disputes matter with science.

“I’ve been pretty clear about what I’m doing in the field of science the most I’m attracted to. I was disappointed that the medicine was the most logical because I liked to talk to the people, to be all day in contact with the people, as if it were the perfect combination “, related the crazy galeno in Hato Rey, but who created in the Bayamón people.

His medical studies were conducted in Puerto Rico at the Central University of the Caribbean, where he graduated in 1994. Three years later we received a specialty in Internal Medicine from University of South Florida y af 1999 logró una subspecialidad en Rheumatología de Emory University School of medicine of Atlanta, Georgia. Solo is an elective class for which Soto Raíces determines that it is series that is dedicated to medicine.

“Never mind that I think much of what I have done as a specialist because I always like rheumatology. It tastes like an elective and I like it very much. Despite the fact that the most chronic conditions are not very attractive, many people are satisfied with an appointment that attracts many patients and one (is welcomed) by his family. I have patients who live for 15 years and establish very good relationships (with them) because they are always happy to do what they have to do to help them maintain a healthy life, ”said Galen,“ even though he has three children boys of 15, 16 and 19 years respectively.

Your research center

To realize its private practice for a year in the state of Florida and to integrate the faculty of the Department of Rheumatology Emory University for some years, in 2003 the doctor went to Puerto Rico to establish his office, he converted to Soto Raíces Mindful Rheumatix and medical research group of San Juan. This place, in addition to serving patients’ clinics, is also a research center where, together with a working group, it conducts clinical research and studies to assist patients with rheumatic chronic conditions.

“My research center is such that I do not deny that there should be a lot of apprenticeships during the investigation and the women have access to many patients through the studies that we have to access the treatments that are on the market. the new treatments ”comment Galeano

His work on the FER foundation

Otra labor that disfruta realizes is to help people with rheumatic conditions working under the Puertorriqueña de Enhermedades Rheumaticas (FER), organization of which has been a founding member since 2009; not only was his first presidency, but three years before the decision was made, he returned the cargo at the time of his compromise with the patients.

“What we have done in these 10 years has been with a lot of effort, with a lot of work, but we have done a job where the people have our knowledge. “The intention was to help patients with multiple forms and to increase the satisfaction of being able to impact distinct patient lives through the years,” the doctor said.

Get rid of routine

In addition to other life experiences, dijo enjoy the work journeys that are constantly held as a guest invited to charlas or symposiums during the weeks shared “with rheumatologists, taking many and different perspectives to make things happen in other places. Meanwhile, one of his favorite pastimes is around the sea, an activity that allows him to relax and unwind from the stresses of the day.

‘Es lo que me despeja. During the week, the time to correct a routine, meditate and leave the routine. Apart from the rest of the things I had to do with my hips, when I had time to fuck my tennis. And if you travel, travel with my tenis and try to correct a rat, ”the rheumatologist confesses.

The family, his example of life

His parents will always support him in his projects; como cuando regresó a la Isla ‘n gevestigde su oficina y “Log in that it works without much frustration”. But, in particular, reconstruct his desire to be a living example to follow.

“My dads work very hard so that, moreover, we will only do so better, so that we will be able to exit in the future. Aun yo ya teniendo una carrera ellos estuvieron listos para ayudarnos. This is an example of light and superiority always the one he presents when he loves the charles ”, recognizes the doctor who also looks for an example for his brothers as his fathers go to him.