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

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, Dr John Burgess worked as a consulting cardiologist in Canada's North, a primary witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. His services to the Inuit, as well as his teaching and research at McGill University, earned him the honour of the Order of Canada." "Burgess's remarkable career is chronicled in Doctor to the North, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in the US, and abroad, to his eventual position as professor of medicine and director of cardiology at Montreal General Hospital. Through first-hand accounts of his experience with Inuit patients, he describes a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented." "Doctor to the North provides 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." --Résumé de l'éditeur 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 Disease 15 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 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. 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.