Collection search - Lyon, Dr. E. Kirk - Interview

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Lyon, Dr. E. Kirk - Interview

Item number (ISN):

435904

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-12-14/1980-01

Item number (ISN):

435904

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / ASSOCIATION MÉDICALE CANADIENNE

Accession:

1982-0255

Media:

Sound

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1979-12-14/1980-01

Production company:

Canadian Medical Association

Production credit:

interviewer, Barry Penhale

Description:

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Interview of Dr. E. Kirk Lyon, deputy to the President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) from 1959 to 1960. He speaks about such subjects as: his upbringing in in Huron County, Ontario; his family background; his education; his work as a farm labourer during the First World War (as a Soldier of the Soil); his ambition to become a doctor; his admiration for Dr. McCallum, his family’s doctor; starting medical studies at the University of Toronto in 1918 when he was age 16; the difficulty of finding enough money to pay his education; summer jobs; going to work as a student intern at the Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania; his graduation in 1923; his professors, such as Dr. J.J.R. MacLeod, Dr. Fitzgerald, Dr. Gideon Silverthorne, Dr. C.L. Starr, Dr. F.N.G. Starr, Dr. Roscoe Graham, Dr. B.P. Watson; Professor Duncan Graham and Dr. John Oille; going back to being an intern at the Moses Taylor Hospital after he graduated, and then at the Geisinger Memorial Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania; getting a job as a ship’s surgeon with the Holland-America Line; working as a resident at the Harlem Hospital in New York City; learning how to give a blood transfusion; starting out in his medical practice in Hamilton; moving to Stratford, Ontario to be the assistant to Dr. G.R. Deacon, doing general surgery and general practice; moving to Leamington in 1927; trying to establish a bigger hospital in the community; getting x-ray equipment for the community; the benefits of doctors working together in a group practice; the doctors he worked with in group practice; his interest in medical politics, although he did not like that expression; the start of prepaid medical care for people in Essex County, which included Leamington; his appointment as coroner for the area, at a salary of $25 for an inquest and $10 for an investigation; his membership in the Essex County Medical Society and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA); his presidency of the OMA; plans for a new hospital; the lack of regulation and inspection of smaller hospitals in Canada circa the 1940s; his introduction in 1950, at the annual meeting of the General Council of the CMA, to inspect and grant accreditation for hospitals; his becoming the first chair of the Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation; the role of the president of the CMA; his becoming deputy to the CMA president, a new office necessitated by the appointment of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as the president of the British Medical Association (the CMA had decided that the person appointed president of the BMA would also serve as its president that year); the speech given by the Duke of Edinburgh when he was inducted as CMA president; Lyon having to perform the duties of president while the Duke was nominal president; his work as chair of a committee to study group practice in Canada; his work as a volunteer surgeon in the Caribbean, as part of a program by the World Medical Association and the CMA; his retirement from general practice and from surgery; more about hospital accreditation; the establishment of the Medical Review Committee by the Ontario Ministry of Health to deal with complaints from the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (OHIP); his interest in photography; rare medical instruments he collected over the years, such as a blood-transfusion machine; the doctor-patient relationship; his view that medicine is one of the greatest professions in the world; and members of his family who have worked in the medical profession.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The subject description is a summary of the transcript found in the collection file.~2. The transcript covers the interviews conducted on 14 December 1979 (cassettes 1982-0255/7 and 8) and January 1980 (cassettes 1982-0255/9 and 10).

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

562802

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0255/07
1982-0255/08
1982-0255/09
1982-0255/10

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

644168

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

435904-1982-0255-09-s1.wav
435904-1982-0255-09-s2.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1982-0255/09

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

644169

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

435904-1982-0255-09-s1.mp3
435904-1982-0255-09-s2.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1982-0255/09

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

645931

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

435904-1982-0255-07-s1.wav
435904-1982-0255-07-s2.wav
435904-1982-0255-08-s1.wav
435904-1982-0255-08-s2.wav
435904-1982-0255-10-s1.wav
435904-1982-0255-10-s2.wav

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1982-0255/07
1982-0255/08
1982-0255/10

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

645933

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

435904-1982-0255-07-s1.mp3
435904-1982-0255-07-s2.mp3
435904-1982-0255-08-s1.mp3
435904-1982-0255-08-s2.mp3
435904-1982-0255-10-s1.mp3
435904-1982-0255-10-s2.mp3

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1982-0255/07
1982-0255/08
1982-0255/10

Status:

REF
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GENCAT identity number:

MSS 24323

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