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Doctor to the North

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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 th...
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  • 01 October 2008
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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.
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Price: $40.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: Footprints Series
Publication Date: 01 October 2008
ISBN: 9780773574533
Format: eBook
BISACs: HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / General
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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 journa