Friends’ response to murderer John Ferney Cano’s book

Ten days after the doctor Juan Guillermo Aristizábal was murdered in his office in the exclusive sector of El Poblado, in Medellín, new details of the crime that has shocked a large part of the Colombian population continue to emerge.

Last Friday, as the EL TIEMPO team of correspondents announced, it gained echo the text of more than 300 pages that John Ferney Cano, the doctor’s alleged murderer, left behind.

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Cano, who died after he had committed the crime, told in his writing how he met the doctor and How he assimilated the diagnosis and treatment that the renowned urologist would have given him.

“I simply thought it would help me, something that didn’t work, because that diagnosis was wrong”reads Cano’s text.

Images from the day of the urologist’s murder.

Photo:Antioquia and Sebastián Carvajal complaints

In the last hours, those in charge of reacting were Juan Camilo Arango, doctor and friend of Juan Guillermo Aristizábal; and Carlos Valdiviezopresident of the Medical College of Antioquia.

‘Doctors have been placed on a level of gods and we are not gods’

John Ferney Cano is accused of killing a urologist

Photo:Courtesy

In a conversation with ‘Noticias Caracol’, Dr. Juan Camilo Arango emphasized that that day Aristizábal’s secretary, who knew about Cano’s case, was not in the office because she was undergoing a medical check-up.

Likewise, he reacted after the statements of Marcela Cano, sister of the accused murderer, were known and the full text left by the man was discovered.

”They have put us doctors on a level of gods and we are not godsWe are human beings and medicine is not science, medicine is an art of interpreting signs and symptoms that are different in each human being. Let it be clear that we are human beings serving human beings”, Aristizábal.

Along the same lines, the president of the Medical College of Antioquia stated: “Patients do not want to assume the frustration of the doctor’s failure, as if we were gods or infallible beings. Every doctor is a human being, capable of making mistakes and even failing.“.

At this time, the details of the crime continue to be investigated by men from the Attorney General’s Office.