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With those words, Dr. David Snadden presents the foreword in a new book produced by the Northern Medical Program. Called Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia, the book captures the legendary stories of 40 health care workers in northern BC. The practitioners include Dr Tracy Morton, who kayaks to work each day on Haida Gwaii; Julie Ephrom, who left California nearly 40 years ago to be a nurse in Vanderhoof; Charles Helm, who is passionate believer in health and people’s connection to nature; and Lisa Sam of Nak’azdli, who won the top national award last year for nurses working on reserves.
Lisa is one of five UNBC grads featured in the book. In addition, the
articles about each person were written by another UNBC graduate –
Sarah de Leeuw – a two-time winner of a CBC literary award and a
Northern Medical Program faculty member. Each person profiled in the
book was also photographed by Tim Swanky, who has been a photographer
at UNBC for more than 20 years.
“A special feature of this book is that the proceeds from the sale of
each copy will go to the Northern Medical Programs Trust,” says Dr.
Snadden, who is the head of the Northern Medical Program. “In this way,
this book will help to educate and produce the next generation of
amazing health care practitioners who will be shaped by this
magnificent land and the remarkable people who live here.”
Published by Creekstone Press of Smithers, the book is available in bookstores around northern BC, including the UNBC Bookstore. The cost is $32.
Two official launches are planned:
- Saturday, April 2, at 2pm in the Dr. Donald Rix Northern Health Sciences Centre at UNBC
- Saturday, April 30, at 2pm in the Elephant’s Ear café in Terrace
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The profiled
caregivers:
Haida Gwaii: Tracy Morton, Diane Brown, Buffy
Watson, Kerry Laidlaw
Prince Rupert: Judy Rea, Sheila
Gordon-Payne
Kitamaat Village – Lucille Harms
Terrace: Francis Osei-Tutu,
Cheryl and Scott Spencer, Lynn Hughes, Gayle and Geoff Appleton
Dease Lake:
David Beaulieu, Philip Clark
The Hazeltons: Charlie Eckfeldt, Debbie
Sullivan, Peter Newbery
Smithers: Biz Bastian, Daphne Hart
Fraser Lake:
John and Sarah Pawlovich
Nak’azdli: Lisa Sam
Vanderhoof: Julie
Ephrom
Prince George: Nadine Caron and Patrick Turner, Karin Gerlach, Winston
Bishop, Louise Creyke, Darlene McIntosh, Inban Reddy, Barbie Everett, Rachel
Boulding, Tammy Attia, Suzanne Molnar
Quesnel: Andrew Sear, Shanda
Rojas
McBride: Michael Jackson
Tumbler Ridge: Charles Helm
Dawson
Creek: Stephen Ashwell
Fort St. John: Becky Temple, Val Lamb, Michael Wright,
Paul Mackey
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