Johann Radax, a trip between Austria and Cuenca, between veterinary medicine and medicine

Johann Radax, a student and then professor of Medicine at the University of Azuay, was born at 1957 in Austria.

When graduating from the school in his country he analyzed his options to decide what career to study, after a visit together with his friends to the career of veterinarian decided to lean by this discipline.

He practiced around 10 years through private consultation, at the same time worked in the pharmaceutical industry, then got a job as a programmer in a steel factory in Germany, all this happened during the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Among other professions, for four years, he worked in a veterinary pharmaceutical industry company, the same that allowed him to travel around the world to give lectures on micro toxins and as a salesman.

In one of his trips he met a fellow doctor in Ecuador, who advised him to stay in the country, and he did so; As he did not have in which to exercise, he worked for a time in ceramics, where he met who is now his wife; After a while he started working in the pharmaceutical industry.

He remained in this until the time of Jamil Mahuad, but when the dollarization occurred the profits did not give him, so his 40 years decided to study medicine at the University of Azuay, where he is currently a teacher.

When asked about medicine, he points out that he misses "the commitment that was before with health".

"The doctor came to the house to see patients, something that is currently being lost or is no longer there," he says, adding:

"They also had less fear in the legal sense because now doctors are afraid to give a diagnosis because if they are wrong and the demands fall on them, to avoid this they make thousands of tests that are sometimes unnecessary, which sometimes tend to be more harmful to the same disease. "

What he likes about current medicine is that there is more possibility of diagnosis but when he says goodbye he remembers his conception of what the doctor does day by day.

He sees medicine "not as something that heals, but as a system to prevent diseases."