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Philippine National Hero and Ophthalmologist

Tracy B. Ravin, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:280-284.

José Rizal (1861-1896) is one of the most revered figures in Philippine history. He was a multifaceted intellectual and a political activist, best known for his political writings that inspired the Philippine revolution and ultimately led to his execution by the Spanish colonizers. Rizal was also a physician who trained in ophthalmology under 2 prominent European ophthalmologists, Louis de Wecker and Otto Becker.

From the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla.