Dr Michael Entwisle was born in French Guinea on 31 October 1927 and died on 31 July 2020 in Courtenay, BC, on the hobby farm he dubbed Guineacres.

Duncan was easy to like, occasionally difficult to fathom, and annoyingly intelligent with numerous interests both within and outside his profession. We met as junior surgical residents at Vancouver General Hospital and became friends for life.

Background

In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and technology as one of seven strategies to enable efforts toward creating health system change.