Who is balfour mount

His voice crackles with enthusiasm when he speaks about his wife, Linda, his children, his dogs, and his writing. I was a cheerleader, among other things.

That was an age when you only had to be able to stand up and shout to be a cheerleader! His work in progress chronicles his life story as well as those of his mother, Maude Adeline Henry, and his father, Dr.

Harry Telford Roy Mount. Harry was a farm boy who had finished only two years of high school before he volunteered for military service in World War I. Having fought at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele, after the war he was granted entry to U of T medical school as a veteran and eventually started the neurosurgery unit at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

Balfour Mount has been working on his book for five years, and is now talking with a publisher who will bring the story into print, probably with the title Ten Thousand Crossroads. An enthusiastic teacher, Dr. He is the author of publications and has participated in the production of 19 teaching films and audiotapes on Oncology and Palliative Care. The above are made possible by the continuing generous support of wife Linda, daughter Bethany, her older siblings and a variety of canine mentors, not to mention a host of Muses representing the creative arts and the inner life.

Canada Post has produced a video honouring Dr. While palliative care was almost non-existent in the s, Dr. Mount launched a two-year pilot project in the field. He travelled to the United Kingdom to learn firsthand about the hospice movement and eventually persuaded the leadership of the Royal Victoria Hospital to open the first comprehensive Palliative Care Service in and began the McGill Programs in Whole Person Care in Mount once said. Pierre Gfeller. Mount travelled to the United Kingdom to learn about the hospice movement firsthand from Dr.

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