Ramon Marquez M.D.

Ramon was born and raised in Puerto Rico and became a pediatrician. He opened up a practice in Brooklyn and Mayor Koch came to the grand opening. During the early days of the advent of AIDS, he contracted AIDS and went back to Puerto Rico to die with his mother whom he adored. He was a very caring doctor. One day when he was still a Resident at Elmhurst Hospital, he came to me (next door) crying because he was so poor. I said, "Go down to Roosevelt Avenue, cross the street, go to your right, and enter the first office building and on the second floor is a CPA. Tell him (showing your pay stubs) to give you a document with your projected earnings for the next two years. Take the document across the street to CITIBANK and ask for a $5,000 loan and they will give it to you today!" A few hours later he rang my bell and screamed, "You are a genius!" He couldn't stop hugging me! "The bank kept asking me, 'You only want five thousand dollars?'" It made me so happy!