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Author Burgess, John H., 1933-2021

Title Doctor to the North : thirty years treating heart disease among the Inuit / John H. Burgess
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 168 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map, portraits
Series Footprints series ; 8
Footprints series (Montréal, Quebec) ; 8.
Contents Contents -- Colour section follows -- Acknowledgments -- 1 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 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 Disease15 Auyuittuq Park: An Arctic Holiday -- 16 The Future -- 17 Transitions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-163) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Burgess, John H., 1933-2021
SUBJECT Burgess, John H., 1933-
Burgess, John H., 1933-2021 fast
Subject Medical care -- Canada, Northern
Cardiologists -- Canada, Northern -- Biography
Inuit -- Medical care -- Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
Inuit -- Medical care -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
Heart -- Diseases -- Canada, Northern
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Canada, Northern
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases.
Eskimos.
Inuit.
Physicians.
Cardiovascular Diseases
Health Status
Inuit
Physicians
physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart.
MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
HISTORY -- General.
Physicians
Inuit
Eskimos
Cardiologists
Cardiovascular system -- Diseases
Heart -- Diseases
Inuit -- Health and hygiene
Medical care
SUBJECT Canada
Subject Northern Canada
Nunavut -- Qikiqtaaluk Region
Québec -- Nunavik
Genre/Form Electronic books
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773574533
0773574530
9780773577497
0773577491