Sir Frederick Grant Banting Laura Voskamp Ms Seymour CHC 2D1 2nd December, 2006 Laura Voskamp Ms Seymour Grade 10 History 2nd December, 2006 Sir Frederick Grant Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting is an excellent candidate for the title of “Great Canadian” for multiple reasons, the most significant of which is his research and discoveries, which have helped immensely in the shaping of Canada’s medical identity, as well as it’s identity as a strong nation. In fact, Dr. Banting is a hero, and his work still saves lives today. The highlight of his career is definitely his co-discovery of the hormone insulin , which is needed to keep a diabetic alive. Aside from this prominent accomplishments, Sir Frederick Banting’s other achievements include his time as Resident Surgeon at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, as well as an act of medical heroism in France during World War One. These are merely a few of his many outstanding antecedents.
As such, patients who walked into the Cancer Institute knew by the very reputation and geographical ties to other research institutions, that they would be subject of various research protocols and the newest and cutting edge treatment protocols. The institute’s extremely intelligent staff allowed for such complicated protocols to be initiated under close guidance. While other hospitals may have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing treatment plans, the staff at Dana-Farber worked their hardest to ensure their patients were receiving the best and safest possible care. Among one of the most widely used oncologic treatments is that of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy exploits the uncontrolled growth characteristics of cancer cells to target them for death.
We have a country full of diversity, multiple cultures/races living and working together. Without these events we many not have the freedom and pride we have to be Canadian. Firstly, in canadian history one important event that is significant to Canada is the Battle of Vimy Ridge. This was the first battle Canada and the Allies had led and won in World War One. “Through preparation must lead to success.
Fredrick Banting and Charles Best lived in London (Ontario), and are the inventors of artificial insulin. This type of insulin was created for people that have diabetes, a disease that leads one to suffer from a lack of naturally produced insulin in their body. Considering that millions of people around the world have diabetes and rely on insulin, Banting and Best invented a life changing and saving invention. The world greatly developed with the creation of
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is caused by a defective gene for a protein called dystrophin. This gene was discovered around 1986-1987 by Dr. Ronald Worton at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Dr. Lou Kunkel at Boston Children’s Hospital. Being the first disease-causing gene to be found helped pave the way for more advances in gene discovery. The gene turned out to be massive which caused a great amount of effort. Today the gene is known as the largest human gene.
While in medical school, he tutored other students to help pay his tuition. Two of his students were among the first women doctors in Ontario. When the United Kingdom first declared war on Germany at the start of World War I, Canada, as a colony of the British Empire, declared war too. McCrae served as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery battalions and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
degree in 1869 from the University of Virginia and spending several years working in the field of public health in New York City, Reed joined the Army Medical Department (1875). In 1898, he headed a board that identified typhoid fever as the cause of much sickness and death at the camps where troops gathered to train for the Spanish‐American War. By establishing human waste as the source of contamination, the board made possible effective public health measures to prevent future epidemics. When, in 1900, another board headed by Reed proved that yellow fever, much dreaded by soldiers sent to Cuba, was carried by a mosquito and identified the specific mosquito, successful efforts to reduce this threat to public health also became possible. Reed's accomplishments resulted not only from his personal skills as a research scientist but from the disciplined world in which he worked: medical officers were often better able than their civilian counterparts to conduct the studies necessary to identify both major diseases that threatened public health and the means by which they spread in civilian and military communities alike.
This act was created after World War II, due to the rise in post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues. * In 1948 Dr. Erich Lindemann, a psychiatrist in Boston, created a community mental health center. He created this center after a fire killed 492 people and injured hundreds. 1950’s * Congress passed the Mental Health Study Act in 1955. This act was passed in order to improve mental health services being given and additionally to expand current clinics so they would be available to anyone who needed it.
Providing life-saving blood and blood products to patients is a key component of the Red Cross mission to help people in times of emergency and disasters. During World War II, America turned to the Red Cross to develop a supply of lifesaving blood on a massive scale. This led to the establishment of the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service, which collected 13.3 million pints of blood plasma for use by our armed forces in World War II. After the war, the Red Cross introduced the first nationwide civilian blood program. Today, each year, the Red Cross collects 6.5 million units of
News Report January, 16th, 2009 Mr.Bussell CHC 2D0 – Period 5   Lester Bowels Pearson, the 14th prime minister of Canada is thought to be the greatest of all time. He received the noble peace prize and helped to save the world. Pearson accomplished so much for the country in his time as prime minister. While Pearson was prime minister he introduced the Canada Pension Plan, a national system of universal Medicare, the Commission on bilingualism and biculturalism, and the Maple Leaf Flag. Pearson also known as Mike, after becoming a member of the liberal party he was the minister of external affairs.