The scalpel, the sword

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THE SCALPEL, THE SWORD tells the story of Dr. Norman Bethune, a hero within our time, a Canadian who lies buried in the north of China. Surgeon, painter, poet, soldier, teacher, critic, lecturer, inventor, medical writer and theorist, he was a man whose friends were legion -among the rich and honored in the great world of medicine, and among the poor and struggling masses of three continents. Norman Bethune hung out his first doctor's shingle after army service in World War I and his subsequent post-graduate study in Europe. He had hardly begun to practice medicine when he was stricken with tuberculosis. Thoracic surgery, fairly new at the time, saved his life. He returned to practice, making this branch of medicine his specialty. When the Depression hit the people o Canada, Norman Bethune was already a famous chest surgeon, an innovator of operating techniques, an inventor of surgical instruments. But he was also a citizen of his time, searching for the reasons behind the hunger... Tovább

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THE SCALPEL, THE SWORD tells the story of Dr. Norman Bethune, a hero within our time, a Canadian who lies buried in the north of China. Surgeon, painter, poet, soldier, teacher, critic, lecturer, inventor, medical writer and theorist, he was a man whose friends were legion -among the rich and honored in the great world of medicine, and among the poor and struggling masses of three continents. Norman Bethune hung out his first doctor's shingle after army service in World War I and his subsequent post-graduate study in Europe. He had hardly begun to practice medicine when he was stricken with tuberculosis. Thoracic surgery, fairly new at the time, saved his life. He returned to practice, making this branch of medicine his specialty. When the Depression hit the people o Canada, Norman Bethune was already a famous chest surgeon, an innovator of operating techniques, an inventor of surgical instruments. But he was also a citizen of his time, searching for the reasons behind the hunger and homelessness and despair of the patients crowding the free wards and the clinics. As he applied his genius to curing the tubercular, he pondered the cause of the disease he was trying to heal. He learned that, for the most part, the cause was poverty-the same poverty that made for the hunger, the homelessness, the despair. What he learned sent him far into the world, to Spain and to China where men were fighting and dying to put an end to poverty. And joining them, fighting by their side, Norman Bethune gave his life in their great cause. Vissza