Doctor to the North

Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease among the Inuit

John H. Burgess (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2008
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3431-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Acknowledgments1 The Long Road to an md; 2 Expanding Horizons during Postgraduate Training; 3 Return to North America; 4 Cardiologist at the Montreal General Hospital and McGill University; 5 My Road to the Presidency of the Royal College; 6 Doctor to the North; 7 History of the Eastern Canadian Inuit; 8 History of the Eastern Canadian Inuit Health Care; 9 Congenital Heart Disease; 10 Valvular Heart Disease; 11 Infective Endocarditis; 12 Pulmonary Heart Disease; 13 Cardiomyopathy; 14 Coronary Artery Disease; 15 Auyuittuq Park: An Arctic Holiday; 16 The Future; 17 TransitionsNotes

Reihe/Serie	Footprints Series
Zusatzinfo	12 pages of colour illustrations 50 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
ISBN-10	0-7735-3431-8 / 0773534318
ISBN-13	978-0-7735-3431-5 / 9780773534315
Zustand	Neuware