There is an opinion that receiving an M.D. isn’t enough to become a good doctor. You should also truly love medicine and everything related to it. It’s difficult to argue with this. After all, medicine is a very special sphere. Therefore, theoretical knowledge isn’t enough to perform medical duties qualitatively.
Brian Day is considered one of the most famous Canadian orthopedic surgeons and medical scientists. He even headed the Canadian Medical Association. All of Brian’s activities prove that he used to make the right choice in favour of medicine. After all, without his research and surgeries, Canadian arthroscopic surgery would hardly have reached such a high level of development.
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Early years and studies
Brian was born in Liverpool, England. His father was a pharmacist who was killed by local hooligans looking for drugs in 1981. Then British doctors misdiagnosed Brian’s mother, which led to her death in 1986. Perhaps, those events influenced Brian’s decision concerning his profession.
So, he became a medical student at the age of 18. At first, Brian was very interested in general surgery, but during his studies, he became more and more interested in orthopedics.
Brian Day graduated from the university with a M.D. and postgraduate qualifications in internal medicine and general surgery. In July 1973, he moved to Vancouver, where he decided to continue his studies. In 1978, he earned his master’s degree.
Famous doctor
In 1979, Brian received an award from the Canadian Orthopaedic Association for his valuable orthopedic research.
After Day had completed a traumatology fellowship in Oxford, Los Angeles and Switzerland, he chose Vancouver General Hospital to start his practice.
He began his career in traumatology and gradually came to orthopedic sports medicine and arthroscopy.
Very soon, Brian Day gained great fame as an orthopedic surgeon. After all, he brilliantly performed arthroscopic operations on the knees, hips, elbows and shoulders.
In addition, Brian played an important role in the development of Canadian arthroscopic joint surgery.
From 1970 to 2014, Brian wrote more than 150 medical articles and scientific works in orthopedics, arthroscopic surgery, sports medicine and health policy.
Leadership in an important organization
Speaking of Brian’s career, it should be mentioned that in 2004 he headed the Arthroscopy Association of North America.
In August 2006, he became the president of the Canadian Medical Association.
As the head of the aforementioned association, Brian actively opposed a full replacement of public hospitals by private ones. He was a supporter of a hybrid public-private system.
Brian Day noted that if a resident of Canada can’t be provided with timely medical care by the public system, they should be given the opportunity to use private health insurance to reimburse the cost of medical care provided by the private sector.