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Evaluating Douglas
Broadcast Date: Feb. 1, 2000
Once an enemy of the medical profession for his contentious medicare program, Tommy Douglas has come full circle. Douglas is posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for his groundbreaking contributions in reforming Canada's health care system. But the fight isn't over quite yet. Douglas' family, in conjunction with the Canadian Health Coalition, is fighting to save the system from privatization. In this CBC Television documentary, Douglas' family and contemporaries examine his legacy.Evaluating Douglas
• "[Tommy Douglas] did not care that people stole his ideas. Lesser men than he did. He didn't care. What was important for him is that it had to be done." — Laurier LaPierre, journalist and politician, Life & Times, 2000.• In 1998 Tommy Douglas was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He was celebrated for his "leadership [which] has provided long term benefits to medical science in Canada and the Canadian health care system remains as a model and source of envy to other countries around the world."
Evaluating Douglas
Medium: Television
Program: Life & Times
Broadcast Date: Feb. 1, 2000
Guest(s): June Callwood, Shirley Douglas, Douglas Fisher, Stephen Lewis
Narrator: Anne Marie Macdonald
Duration: 3:57
Audio material: Birdsong Communications
Last updated:
Sept. 5, 2003
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"How do you talk to a man about saving his soul if he's got a toothache?" asks Tommy Douglas.
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