Medical history vignette
As physicians continue to care for patients through the COVID-19 pandemic they are walking in the footsteps of physicians who, in 1918, were confronted with the Spanish flu pandemic. We honour this legacy of patient care in Nova Scotia carried on by physicians today in communities across our province.
Dr. Allan Marble, Chair of the Medical History Society of Nova Scotia, reflects some of the physicians who decades ago stood on the front lines during the Spanish flu as it raged throughout the world.