Bethune declared medicine a 'luxury trade' and demanded doctors ask 'how best can we serve you' instead of 'how much have you got.'
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A wartime doctor grows into a reformer, communist organizer, and advocate for socialized medicine.
Norman Bethune's life is set against war first, then brought back to Montreal, the Great Depression, and the politics that shaped his public work.
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Bethune's battlefield origin story turns into a fight over who gets care.
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