Medical Lyricism from Azuay, Volume I

Aurelio Maldonado Aguilar (Cuenca, Ecuador, 1954) completed his primary education at Escuela San Francisco de Borja and secondary education at Colegio Nacional Benigno Malo. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cuenca and a postgraduate degree in Otolaryngology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has taken numerous courses and internships to update his skills in Otolaryngology in several countries. He has served as President of the Ecuadorian and Ibero-American Otolaryngology Societies. As a writer, he has published poetry books such as Poemario íntimo (1999), Relámpagos (2001), Divagaciones (2001), Bitácora de un peregrino (2002), Vuelo de una pluma (2002), Brasas (2003), Unto de barro (2005), and Huayna Cápac, su corazón en Tumipamba (2003); short story collections including Cuentos sin cuento (2001), Así hablaba Zarañusta (2005), Érase otra vez (2008), and Y esto fue (2015); and poetry anthologies such as Poesía médica cuencana Vol. I (2002), Vol. II (2004), and Mujerespoesía (2003). His literary work has been presented in Peru, receiving recognition in Cusco and Arequipa. He is a university professor, was a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo for thirteen years, and is currently a columnist for El Mercurio. Maldonado Aguilar also serves as President of the Society of History of Medicine and Director of the Museum of Medicine in Cuenca.