3 Quotes & Sayings By Norman Bethune

Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and humanitarian, who was a medical student at McGill University in 1912. He responded to the call for volunteers from the British Red Cross Society in China during World War I. In China, he founded a hospital in Changsha, Hunan province, which became one of the most famous hospitals in Asia. He continued his work for free throughout China's civil war, staunching the bleeding of wounded soldiers and treating the wounded of both sides Read more

Bethune died in a plane crash in 1939 while on a mission to deliver medical supplies to French Indochina.

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The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times. Norman Bethune
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Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you? Norman Bethune