Alice Girard is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Alice Girard as American nurse and dean.
Alice Girard was born at Waterbury in 1907. Her recorded nationality is United States. She trained at University of Toronto and University of Washington.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Recognition followed: Officer of the National Order of Quebec (1994), Officer of the Order of Canada and Florence Nightingale Medal (1967).
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Alice Girard died in 1999, aged 92. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Officer of the National Order of Quebec — 1994
- Officer of the Order of Canada
- Florence Nightingale Medal — 1967
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