In the history of medicine, Miller Fisher is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Miller Fisher as Canadian doctor, neurologist, pathologist.
Miller Fisher was born at Waterloo in 1913. His recorded nationality is Canada. He trained at University of Toronto and Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Canada matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Miller Fisher died in 2012, aged 99. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
