Dr. Gene Turgeon, a now-retired local dermatologist, has drawn on his own ancestral roots to write a history of medicine in Sault Ste. Marie.
He began his medical career as a Sioux Lookout-based doctor flying into 28 remote communities before moving to the Sault to practice medicine in 1975. “One day in my office about 30 years ago two ladies came to my office with a box filled with documents. They had walked up from the museum. They had taken four boxes of stuff they found in an old closet at the Plummer Memorial Hospital. There were some medical artifacts inside and so the museum took four of the boxes but the last box was paper documents the museum didn't want. They asked me if I wanted this information and I said ‘sure.
“One thing I found interesting was that a quarter of the doctors that came here had been teachers before they went into medicine,” Turgeon said. He said that he is naturally pleased with advances made in modern medicine but would have preferred to receive Indigenous healing in the 19th century.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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