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Thomson, K.C. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

436472

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1977-05-30

Item number (ISN):

436472

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / ASSOCIATION MÉDICALE CANADIENNE

Accession:

1980-0006

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1977-05-30

Production company:

Canadian Medical Association

Description:

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Interview of Dr. R.K.C. Thomson, president of the Canadian Medical Association in 1966 and 1967. He speaks about such subjects as: his childhood; his father’s emigration from Scotland to Banff, Alberta; his parents’ operation of the Banff hotel known as The Hydro, on the site of the later Rimrock Hotel; his father’s occupation as a pharmacist; his father’s service with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during the First World War; his mother’s work as a nurse in Banff during the First World War; growing up in Banff; the University of Alberta medical school; his start in university in 1923; receiving his degree in medicine in 1931; his professors at the medical school; his interest in psychiatry; his internship at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton; further medical studies in London, England in 1934; studies at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases and the National Heart Hospital; joining the navy during the Second World War; serving as principal medical officer at the Naval Training Base at Cornwallis and at sea on HMCS Ugana; an epidemic of polio aboard ship when HMCS Uganda was in Australia; kamikaze attacks on allied planes; his return to Edmonton after the war; his appointment as clinical professor of neurology; medical insurance; his interest in the economic problems of the medical profession; the establishment of Trans-Canada Medical Plans; the problem of extending benefits of prepaid medical plans to lower-income people unable to afford premiums; the Hall Commission Report; medical care for First Nations people; remuneration for doctors; the government’s opposition to granting an income tax deduction for doctors who take postgraduate training; dealings with federal Ministers of Health; the Saskatchewan doctors’ strike; his involvement with the Canadian Medical Association; the World Medical Association; the British Commonwealth Medical Association; abortion; sterilization; euthanasia; and his leisure activities.

Language:

English

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1. Subject description is a summary of transcript in collection file.

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Vault ISN:

563569

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1980-0006/28

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1091566

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

436472-1980-0006-028-1.WAV
436472-1980-0006-028-2.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1980-0006/028

Status:

MASTER
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