المرحوم الدكتور عباس باقر محمد علي

المرحوم الدكتورعباس باقر  محمد علي مواليد العراق ١٩١٧ مدينة الكاظمية المقدسة 

دورة ١٩٤٤ الكلية الطبية. الملكية العراقية 

دبلوم. اختصاص من سويسرا 

عيادته في الكاظمية 

الشقيق. الأكبر. للمرحوم. الدكتور فرحان المرحوم الدكتور 

عباس باقر محمد علي 

مواليد العراق 1917 تخرج من الكليه الطبيه الملكية العراقية  تموز ١٩٤٤ اول عمل لهُ في مصلحه الصحه العامه عام 1945 ثم عمل في  مستوصف الشريف الرضي الكاضميه عام 1952 .شغل مناصب إدارية عليا رئيس صحة ومدير العيادات الطبيه المركزية في تل محمد سنه 1958/1959 .دبلوم عالي في الأمراض الباطنية...من أعلام الطب العراقي الرعيل الأول 

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 Dr. Abbas Bakir, the son of Hajji Bair, and older brother of Dr. Farhan Bakir, was born in Kadhimiya, Baghdad in 1917, the year Baghdad fell to the British. His father sent him to the Kuttab, not a government school, because he felt the official schools were the work of the infidel British. After a few years, however, the Hajji was prevailed upon to send my father to a government school, so that he would not fall behind his peers.

 Dr. Abbas Bakir graduated from the Medical College in 1944, the year World War II ended in the European theater. The Chairman of Medicine at the college at the time was the famous Dr. Sanderson who considered my father one of his brightest students. After my father graduated from medical school, he was granted a scholarship to Switzerland for a diploma in Tropical Diseases, which he finished in half the allotted time, while also learning French.

 Abbas Bakir graduated from the Medical College in 1944, the year World War II ended in the European theater. The Chairman of Medicine at the college at the time was the famous Dr. Sanderson who considered my father one of his brightest students. After my father graduated from medical school, he was granted a scholarship to Switzerland for a diploma in Tropical Diseases, which he finished in half the allotted time, while also learning French.

 He set up office in Kadhimiya, was considered a great diagnostician, and he never moved his office to Baghdad as some other physicians in Kadhimiya did. He saw a large number of patients, and very often did not charge the ones he knew were in financial straits. During the day he attended to patients in the Kadhimiya General Hospital, across the street from the Ameeriya grammar school. Young medical graduates were assigned to the hospital and they toured with him on the patients. I have met some of those doctors in the USA and they all remembered him fondly and told me what a great diagnostician he was, and how much they learned from him.

 

 Later in life he developed congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation, and was hospitalized several times. He suffered from cataracts and benign prostatic hypertrophy, but the doctors did not want to intervene because of his very poor cardiac condition. In the year 2001 he became very ill. I traveled to Baghdad in April to see him. He pleaded with me to persuade my mother and sister not to take him back to the hospital and let him go in peace at home. I talked to them about that, but was not sure that they were persuaded.

 

 On July 12 of the same year, as he was eating, his head dropped on the tray, and he was gone. His Fatiha in Kadhimiya was attended by so many people that chairs had to be set up outside on the sidewalk to accommodate the attendees.