Doctor to the North - Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit

Informationen zum Autor John H. Burgess Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: John Burgess, John H Burgess, John H. Burgess
• Publisher: Mcgill queen's university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2008
• EAN: 9780773534315
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-3431-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Footprints Series; Footprints Series; FOOTPRINTS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General