Doctor to the North
Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit
Format:Hardback
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Published:1st Oct '08
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Chronicles the author's remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad, to eventual roles as a professor of medicine and director of Cardiology at Montreal General Hospital. This title presents a spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.The experiences of a university heart specialist and consultant to the Inuit of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
"First-hand clinical experience by one of Canada's leading, superbly trained physicians, and the only Canadian who had the opportunity to "sub specialize" in Arctic cardiology - a fine biography." C. Stuart Houston, author of Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way "Dr Burgess has an impressive ability to make complex abnormalities easily understood ... a very useful introduction to cardiology for every medical student." Louis Horlick, author of J. Wendell Macleod: Saskatchewan's Red Dean
ISBN: 9780773534315
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 360g
178 pages