Dr. Nadine Caron receives prestigious honour
PRINCE GEORGE – She is the first Canadian female general surgeon of First Nations descent, as well as the first female First Nations student to graduate from the University of British Columbia’s medical school. She has a Master’s from Harvard. And now, she is one of six people to be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. And she’s the first to admit, she couldn’t have done it without a legion of people around her.
“Pretty much every accomplishment that I’ve ever had,” she says. “I can really name some key people that, if they didn’t exist in my life, I would have had not even the foresight to even start that journey, let alone get to the point where I’m at now. And so that’s what I mean. You don’t get recognition like this without basically turning around and seeing this huge group of people behind you. It really is amazing.”