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Part of a prominent Canadian family, Dr. Norman Bethune revolutionized battlefield medicine while helping the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. He then went to China, where he helped bring modern medicine to the rural areas. Celebrated in China, he was ignored for decades in Canada.

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*sources*

• Newspapers.com
• Bethune: The Montreal Years by Wendell Macleod, Libbie Park and Stanley Ryerson
• Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/norman-bethune
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bethune_norman_12E.html
• Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2018/06/dr-norman-bethune-1890-1939.html
• Legion Magazine: https://legionmagazine.com/in-his-blood-the-life-and-death-of-norman-bethune/
• CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/rewind/norman-bethune-china-s-hero-1.2801190

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