Balfor Mount, who revolutionized life, died in the nominee nominated unit in honor

Dr. Balfor Mount, who coined the word “subcutaneous care” and whose intense sympathy helped bring revolution in health care in North America, died peacefully on 25 September in a subscription unit tolerating their names.

He was 86 years old.

Mount dedicated her life to take care of others and to reduce sorrow. In interviews, his family and colleagues recalled him as a deep kind and a terrible lawyer for humanity of those who suffer.

“Legend, Dr. Balfor Mount, known worldwide,” James Mount, Balfor’s son said.

“But he does not know about the father he had, and the amazing appearance he had was love and support. He was not just a friend or father. He was also my counselor. I lost a lot.”

Mount was born on 14 April 1939 in Ottawa. His father, Dr. Harry Telford Roy Mount served during the First World War to study both Vimi Ridge and Paschendra before and to become the first neurosurgeon of Ottawa.

“So the bar was set very high when Dad came together in 1939,” James said.

Growing up, he struggled at Mount School. He was a slow reader, James said. But he remained with his studies and graduated from Queen University with a degree of medicine as a surgical urologist.

As a young man, he was competed with testes cancer, which he told the Ottawa citizen in a 2005 interview, forced him to face his mortality.

But it was after a church meeting to discuss it Death and deathA book written by Elizabeth Kubbler-Ross that compiles dying experiences, that Mount decided to transfer the course of his life.

Mount told the citizen, “It did not happen to me that I had no clue about death and dying.” “I thought, ‘I am a doctor; I should know everything in the world about death and death.” But, of course, I knew nothing at all. ,

Correct approach

Inspired by the book, he led a small study in the experiences of terminally sick patients at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. The study, he said, people demonstrated the “abysmal insufficiency” of care to reduce both pain and suffering to die.

Therefore, he traveled to England, under where, under, under Dame siclee saundersSt. Christopher, the founder of the world’s modern first Dharamshala, saw how the first hand could be pain, in fact, with the right approach – can be reduced to sick patients.

That approach included appropriate clinical care: for example, Opioids, rarely, were prescribed in high doses, which was in high doses to reduce pain in sick cancer patients.

But it also included a kind approach, an attempt to understand the root of a patient’s pain – to be present with them – as Mount often described it, according to colleagues.

He brought back the approach to North America and in 1975, as part of a pilot project, created a hospital ward to die in Royal Vik.

It was around the time when he coined the term “subcutaneous care”. He used the word in exchange for “Dharamshala” due to the Canadian Frankophone population. The word had a different meaning in French; It was an old term that was referred to, to some extent, in a nursing home.

John Scott, a long -time associate of Mount, who helped him develop the first subcutaneous care unit in Royal Vik, said, then, doctors denied the existence of pain and suffering and did not know what they had to do.

Mount’s approach, Scott said, went away in another way.

Scott said, “He was so clear and so hot and fantastic at the same time.” “He was able to break through denial and allowed people to see it, in fact, was telling the truth that he was relieving and treating.”

‘One extreme force’

Dr. Justin Sanders, Current Eric M. In Flanders’ chair McGill University, in Paletiva Medicine, a position was held once in Mount, said in an interview that Mount “Mount” was ready to work hard against the structures of care that they felt they felt that they were insufficient. ”

“On the one hand, he was a very soft and kind person and on the other side there could be an extreme force,” he said.

James along with his father recalled the time to spend time in the subscriber care unit he established. He saw his father sick and caring for dying; He saw his terrible approach to understand his grief and provide comfort.

In its 60s, Mount was diagnosed with esophagel cancer, requiring a permanent tracheostomy. According to Sanders, he continued to work and continued to work for better solutions – he also became an early champion of the entire person – an approach to the drug in which patients are considered “instead of just one disease” instead of a disease.

He also advocated for dying and dying of doctor-help Improvement in better life care,

His work received him many appreciation, awards and honors as an officer in the Canadian order, but he shook the limelight and always said that his biggest achievements were his children.

He was a dedicated father who applied the same principles of sympathy and love that he gave to his patients in every aspect of his life.

Exercise

James recalled how his father supported him through a difficult diagnosis of his own. When Mount went to the doctor’s office with him, he reported to him that he had a rare autoimmune disease. “I thought the world was out of my feet,” he said. “And I looked at Dad and he smiled and said that it is going to recover. … and it was.”

He put the same composition in his last years and months as he was more weak and tired under age and esophagel cancer.

“He was not a wall in Atma-Daya,” James said. “He always found a way to overcome the conversation and what he thought he matched and he was the person with whom he was speaking.”

Prior to his death, he was admitted to the Balfor Mount Admiry Care Unit. There, family and friends kept him a company.

Sanders sat with him and grabbed his hand, sometimes saying a few words, but mainly Mount had taught himself about subscribing care, that this is “practice of appearance”.

“It was an individual with an extraordinary appearance, and I think it was through its appearance, his thoughts, that he really inspired so many doctors to follow their footsteps,” Sanders said.

For James, his father’s way of passing, without pain, the unit that was established was a gift – a final function of love.

He said, “I don’t want people to remember him just that he is in the form of Mavric.” “I want them to learn about his humanity. And I want him to know about the father he was and the gift he was for all of us.”