Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit"For several weeks a year, over three decades, Dr John Burgess worked as a consulting cardiologist in Canada's North, a primary witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. His services to the Inuit, as well as his teaching and research at McGill University, earned him the honour of the Order of Canada." "Burgess's remarkable career is chronicled in Doctor to the North, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad, to his eventual position as professor of medicine and director of cardiology at Montreal General Hospital. Through first-hand accounts of his experience with Inuit patients, he describes a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented." "Doctor to the North provides unique insight into the making of a heart specialist, researcher, and teacher. It also serves as a history of health care and heart disease in the Canadian Inuit and a cardiology treatise for present and future health care workers." --Résumé de l'éditeur. |
Contents
1 The Long Road to an MD | 3 |
2 Expanding Horizons during Postgraduate Training | 18 |
3 Return to North America | 32 |
4 Cardiologist at the Montreal General Hospital and McGill University | 40 |
5 My Road to the Presidency of the Royal College | 44 |
6 Doctor to the North | 47 |
7 History of the Eastern Canadian Inuit | 59 |
8 History of Eastern Canadian Inuit Health Care | 75 |
12 Pulmonary Heart Disease | 115 |
13 Cardiomyopathy | 118 |
14 Coronary Artery Disease | 122 |
An Arctic Holiday | 133 |
Colour section follows | 134 |
16 The Future | 145 |
17 Transitions | 150 |
Notes | 161 |
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Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit John H. Burgess Limited preview - 2009 |
Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit John H. Burgess No preview available - 2008 |
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