Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Telephone , fax , e-mail jean. Henry Norman Bethune is one of the most exciting and incredible surgeons that Canada has ever produced.
He was an innovator and his scientific contributions have stood the test of time. In Canada, he will forever be remembered as a social activist committed to the welfare of the poor and to the reform of the health care system. To detail the numerous and significant achievements of Henry Norman Bethune in the field of thoracic surgery and as a social activist and describe his heroic war-time actions on the battlefields of both Spain and China. In the social sense, Henry Norman Bethune had a difficult personality, but he was deeply caring about the plight of his patients, especially the poor.
As a thoracic surgeon, he could be ingenious, thoughtful and effective but he could also be abrasive, restless and temperamental. His scientific contributions were sound and, at the time, gained worldwide attention. As an activist, he led a crusade to reform the Canadian health care system, demanding free health care for all. His outstanding work during the Spanish Civil War, where he organized the first ever mobile blood transfusion unit, and during the Sino-Japanese war, where he was totally committed to the welfare of both soldiers and civilian population, were deliberate acts of resistance against Fascist onslaught and enthusiasm for the Communist cause.
Henry Norman Bethune was unconventional and a revolutionary, but he was brilliant. He will forever be remembered as an innovative thoracic surgeon and outstanding humanitarian. It is an enormously difficult task to write about the medical life of Henry Norman Bethune Figure 1 , who was one of the most exciting and incredible surgeons that Canada has ever produced. He was unconventional but brilliant 2.
In the social sense, he had a difficult personality but he was deeply caring about the plight of his patients, especially the poor. Professionally, he could be ingenious and thoughtful but, at the same time, could also be abrasive and temperamental.
