Dr. Norman Bethune

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:Chinese_Communist_Party
gptkb:Mao_Zedong
gptkbp:awarded Order of the Red Banner (posthumously, China)
gptkbp:birthDate 1890-03-03
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Gravenhurst,_Ontario,_Canada
gptkbp:causeOfDeath sepsis
infection from a cut
gptkbp:commemoratedBy Bethune International Peace Hospital, China
Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site
gptkbp:deathDate 1939-11-12
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Tang_County,_Hebei,_China
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Toronto
gptkbp:employer Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Chinese Eighth Route Army
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Henry_Norman_Bethune
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Bethune_Memorial_House
statues in China and Canada
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Dr. Norman Bethune
gptkbp:influenced Chinese medical system
gptkbp:influencedBy socialist ideals
gptkbp:knownFor pioneering mobile blood transfusion
work in the Spanish Civil War
work with Chinese Communist forces
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
English
some Chinese
gptkbp:legacy revered in China
symbol of internationalism
gptkbp:mentionedIn Mao Zedong's essay 'In Memory of Norman Bethune'
gptkbp:militaryService gptkb:Canadian_Army_Medical_Corps
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Canadian
gptkbp:notableWork medical service in China
mobile blood transfusion service
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physician
medical innovator
gptkbp:parent Elizabeth Ann Goodwin
Malcolm Nicolson Bethune
gptkbp:religion Presbyterian (early life)
gptkbp:residence gptkb:China
gptkb:Montreal,_Canada
gptkb:Spain
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Frances_Penney
gptkbp:subjectOf biographies
film 'Bethune: The Making of a Hero'
gptkbp:wrote essays
letters
medical articles
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Canadian_Mackenzie–Papineau_Battalion
gptkb:Mackenzie–Papineau_Battalion
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7