September

Each year the BCMA, like the other provincial and territorial divisions of the Canadian Medical Association, sends a delegation to the CMA’s General Council (GC). The CMA’s annual meeting this year was 22–25 August in Niagara Falls.

1933–2010

John Dueck graduated in medicine from UBC in 1962. After interning at VGH he spent the next 3 years working at a leprosy hospital in India. On returning to Canada he trained in general surgery at VGH and then practised his whole career in the upper Fraser Valley.

As a surgeon he had all the qualities that were needed—he was committed, untiring, meticulous, and compassionate. He was a careful diagnostician and an extremely competent and dextrous technician, but most of all he always focused on what was best for the patient. 

Dr Hugh Richard Williams passed away in May 2010, after a 21/2-year battle with cancer. Hugh was born in Winnipeg and grew up there, completing his medical studies at the University of Manitoba. 

Hugh established a family medical practice in Port Moody. He later became the clinical director for the Narcotics Addiction Foundation in Vancouver. Following this he served as a physician with the Public Service Health Department of the federal government until his retirement. 

Loved and respected by those who met and worked with him, David passed away at the Vancouver General Hospital on 10 July 2010. 

David was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 7 April 1928 where he lived with his parents, Alexander and Roberta Bolton, and his two brothers, John and Sandy. At the age of 20 David graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in forestry. 

From his early boyhood David was fascinated with the information he had collected and the books he had read about Canada, and although his heart was always in Scotland, he resolved to emigrate. 

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