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Doctor to the NorthThirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit |
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The experiences of a university heart specialist and consultant to the Inuit of the eastern Canadian Arctic.
Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his 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.
For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.
Doctor to the North provides a 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.
For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.
Doctor to the North provides a 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.
Details
Part of the Footprints Series (number 8 in series)
178 Pages, 6 x 9
12 pages of colour illustrations 50 b&w illustrations
ISBN 9780773534315
October 2008
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"...the story of a life lived well and with meaning -- and it is recounted with grace, humility and, in places, humour." Susan Schwartz, The Montreal Gazette
"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
"This book offers a window into many worlds: academic medicine, northern health care, cardiology and Inuit health. I hope that it will be read and enjoyed by many who live in only one of these spheres, with no link to the others. In Doctor to the North, Burgess is a deeply human ambassador between worlds separated by culture, language, history and resources." Canadian Medical Association Journal
"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
"This book offers a window into many worlds: academic medicine, northern health care, cardiology and Inuit health. I hope that it will be read and enjoyed by many who live in only one of these spheres, with no link to the others. In Doctor to the North, Burgess is a deeply human ambassador between worlds separated by culture, language, history and resources." Canadian Medical Association Journal
John Burgess is an emeritus cardiologist at the McGill Health Centre, professor of medicine, McGill University, past-president of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and author of numerous research and review articles in medical journals.
Doctor to the North
John H. Burgess
Table of Contents
section follows 134
Acknowledgments | x
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
9 Congenital Heart Disease | 83
10 Valvular Heart Disease | 96
11 Infective Endocarditis | 111
12 Pulmonary Heart Disease | 115
13 Cardiomyopathy | 118
14 Coronary Artery Disease | 122
15 Auyuittuq Park: An Arctic Holiday | 133
16 The Future | 145
17 Transitions | 150
Notes | 161
Index | 165
John H. Burgess
Table of Contents
section follows 134
Acknowledgments | x
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
9 Congenital Heart Disease | 83
10 Valvular Heart Disease | 96
11 Infective Endocarditis | 111
12 Pulmonary Heart Disease | 115
13 Cardiomyopathy | 118
14 Coronary Artery Disease | 122
15 Auyuittuq Park: An Arctic Holiday | 133
16 The Future | 145
17 Transitions | 150
Notes | 161
Index | 165
