num_pages: 178
description: For several weeks a year, over three decades, he worked as a consulting cardiologist in the Canadian North, a first-hand witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. Through the stories of some of his Inuit patients, Burgess presents a broad spectrum of heart diseases and discusses how they can be prevented.
language: English
title: Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press