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Early in his career he became orthopedic consultant to the National Board of the Shriners’ Hospitals generic voltarol 100 mg on line. He particularly enjoyed this association and remained actively interested in it until his final illness. From 1942 to 1949 he acted as surgical consultant to the Workmen’s Compensation Board of Ontario. This appointment, which reflected his keen interest in reconstructive surgery, began when Ontario’s surgical ranks were depleted because of the war and imposed a heavy additional burden on him. McDonald was a master of Lane’s “no touch” technique and was meticulous sometimes to the point of exasperation from the viewpoint of his assistants. But none who had the privilege of training under him suffered from the experience, for he had much to teach of the craft of surgery. John Laing McDONALD His publications are few, but his true quality is reflected by the vast family of patients who knew 1895–1967 him first when they were children and who con- tinued to consult him as adults until illness The son of Allan McDonald and Jessie Atkin, he obliged him to close his practice in 1966. While pres- After completing his preliminary education in ident of the Canadian Orthopedic Association in Dresden, he entered the University of Toronto 1955, he put forward the concept that the Medical School in 1911 and graduated with members should support a trust fund, the income honors in 1916. With most of his class he enlisted from which was to be used to support orthopedic immediately in the Canadian Army Medical training and research in Canada. This trust, now Corps, serving with distinction in Great Britain called the Canadian Orthopedic Foundation, has and Salonika. He returned to Toronto in 1918 with become of more than modest size and is used to the rank of Captain and remained in the service support, among other things, the biennial visits of until 1920, attached to Christie Street Veterans’ the Traveling Fellows to Canada. John Laing McDonald died December 10, As an undergraduate he had preferred surgery 1967, 11 months after a cerebrovascular accident. After leaving the army he took sur- gical training at the Middlesex Hospital under Gordon-Taylor, at the Mayo Clinic, and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.


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