Front Lines: Celebrating Northern BC’s Health Care Practitioners
March 30. 2011
This is a book about people from many walks of life with varied skills. There are traditional healers, community health workers, nurses, and family and specialist physicians who not only care for others but pass their wisdom and skills to the next generation. The stories told by caregivers in the North become legends.
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With those words, Dr. David Snadden presents the foreword in a new book produced by the Northern Medical Program. Called Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia, the book captures the legendary stories of 40 health care workers in northern BC. The practitioners include Dr Tracy Morton, who kayaks to work each day on Haida Gwaii; Julie Ephrom, who left California nearly 40 years ago to be a nurse in Vanderhoof; Charles Helm, who is passionate believer in health and people’s connection to nature; and Lisa Sam of Nak’azdli, who won the top national award last year for nurses working on reserves. “A special feature of this book is that the proceeds from the sale of each copy will go to the Northern Medical Programs Trust,” says Dr. Snadden, who is the head of the Northern Medical Program. “In this way, this book will help to educate and produce the next generation of amazing health care practitioners who will be shaped by this magnificent land and the remarkable people who live here.”
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This is a selection of photos from Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia. To access the high resolution image of anyone in the book, contact Communications at 250.960.5621 |
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 Stephen Ashwell of Dawson Creek |
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 Val Lamb of Fort St. John |
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