Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1528693 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

Review
"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

About the Author
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.