Charles Henri Parent, MD recognized the importance for patients receiving medical care to have nurses and practitioners that can relay medical information in their language and with the same cultural reverence to allow the patient to be at ease. As a Guam physician, he witnessed the positive curative value that nurses from Micronesia can have with other Micronesian patients that don’t speak English and had never previously travelled from their home islands in Micronesia before.
He worked as a physician at the Guam Public Health and FHP clinic for over 25 years and was a qualified surgeon. He passed away in Guam on November 6, 2007. He is warmly remembered for his human kindness, calming bedside manner, and his medical expertise.