Balfour Mount, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian physician, surgeon, and academic
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Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
About Balfour Mount
- Balfour M.
- Mount, (born 14 April 1939) is a Canadian physician, surgeon, and academic.
- He is considered the father of palliative care in North America.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he received his medical degree from Queen's University in 1963 and studied surgery and urology at McGill University.
- In January 1973, Dr.
- Mount, an urologic-cancer surgeon, was influenced by a discussion group of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' book On Death and Dying to lead a study of the conditions at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital.
- In September 1973, after visiting Cicely Saunders' St.
- Christopher's Hospice he helped to create a similar ward within the Royal Victoria Hospital and coined the term "palliative care".
- He became the founding Director of the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service, the Palliative Care McGill in 1990 and the McGill Programs in Integrated Whole Person Care in 1999.
- Dr.
- Mount is the Eric M.
- Flanders Emeritus Professor of Palliative Care at McGill University.
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