Is there a health provider in your community’s history who went above and beyond?
Is there a rural health-care pioneer in your community whose story deserves to be told?
Pioneer doctors, nurses, and other health providers were innovators and trailblazers who worked in primitive conditions and travelled the countryside to provide health services to Alberta’s pioneer generation.
If you have a historic health-care hero you think RhPAP should highlight, we’d love to hear from you.
Can you imagine a small-town doctor with an airplane, visiting patients all around southern Alberta 100 years ago? - Ron Wickson, Mayor, Town of Bassano
For almost 40 years, Bassano’s Dr. Alexander Gladstone Scott worked around the clock, tending to the well-being of the surrounding frontier communities.
With patients spread across many miles, he took to the roads, and then to the skies, going above and beyond to care for prairie people in the days before public health care.
RhPAP is proud to celebrate the living legacy of Dr. A.G. Scott: an innovator, pioneer, and prairie trailblazer in this video produced by Jonathan F. Koch and the Forgotten Alberta Project (www. forgottenalberta.com), with the cooperation of the Bassano Medical Clinic, the Town of Bassano, and RhPAP.
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