Doctor for all seasons

Canadian doctor Norman Bethune stayed in China for 22 months before he died of tetanus in a village in Hebei in 1939.

Most Chinese know him as a hero who worked nonstop to do operations and save many poor people and soldiers during the wartime. He conducted a record of 71 operations in 40 hours and saved 115 lives in 69 hours.

Few may know that he was the one who contributed to mobile blood transfusion service and mobile medical units in the battlefield, and he was advocator of the free Medicare system in Canada.