Norman Bethune Are you interested in medicine? If you are, then you must have heard of Norman Bethune. Norman Bethune was a sympathetic man, he had a warm heart—a quality that led him to use his medical knowledge to save soldiers’ lives during World War Ⅱ. Bethune was born in Grave Hurst, Ontario, Canada on March 4, 1890. As a young child, his thought was affected by his family. His great-great-grandfather was a reverend doctor and his grandfather was educated as a doctor at King’s College, so he decided to work as a doctor, too. After he graduated from Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, he followed his dream and attended University of Toronto in order to become a good surgeon. However, he postponed his study for one year in 1911 to be a volunteer laborer— a teacher with Frontier College.…show more content… In order to save other lives, he stopped his medical degree again and joined an army which was stationed in France. He spent three months in an English hospital and returned to Toronto to complete his medical degree. Ultimately, he received his degree in 1916. In January 1938, he travelled to Yan’an in Shanbei region of Shanxi Province in China, in order to help more people avoid hurting from war. During these times, he joined the Chinese Communists which were led by Mao Zedong. However, in the midst of the Second Sino— Japanese War, he cut his finger while operating on a soldier. Because of this accident, he contracted septicemia and died on November 12, 1939. After Bethune’s death, Mao Zedong published his essay entitled 《In Memory of Norman Bethune》. Bethune used his hands to help heal people. If this angel hadn’t come to the battlefield, more and more people would have died at that
