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Lucille Teasdale-Corti, (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996) was a Canadian physician, surgeon and international aid worker, who worked in Uganda and contributed to the development of medical services in the country. ==Early life in Canada== Born in Montreal East, Quebec on 30 January 1929, Lucille Teasdale was the fourth of seven children. Her father René ran a grocery store in Avenue Guybourg, Saint-Léonard, Montreal.〔Arseneault p. 48〕 She was educated as a boarder at Collège Jésus-Marie d'Outrement, a select Catholic college〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lucille Teasdale ''in The Great Names of the French Canadian Community'' )〕 by nuns whose methods she thought to be very strict. A visit to the college by some nuns who had worked as missionaries in China acted as a catalyst for her, then aged 12,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Famous Canadian Physicians: Dr Lucille Teasdale )〕 to consider becoming a doctor,〔Arseneault p. 51〕 this coming on top of voluntary work which she had done in a clinic serving the disadvantaged people of the Plateau Mont-Royal from which she had gained a conviction that the worst injustice was disease and that she could do something about it.〔 She won a scholarship to attend medical school at the University of Montreal, starting in 1950. Females were not common in the medical profession at that time and her class of 110 students included only eight women. She graduated in 1955, becoming one of the first female surgeons in Quebec, and took work at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montreal.〔 It was at this time, while working in the pediatric department,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Piero Corti and Lucille Teasdale )〕 that she first met the Italian doctor, Piero Corti. He was working at the hospital to obtain a specialist qualification in pediatrics, to add to those in radiology and neuropsychiatry which he already had. Corti showed an interest in her but Teasdale was concentrating on her job, working up to 16 hours a day and sometimes fainting in the operating theater as a consequence.〔Arseneault p. 18〕 A condition of completing her postgraduate training was that she must agree to work for a period of time in a hospital abroad. Teasdale tried to obtain work in the USA but was turned down by 20 hospitals. She later said that this was "probably because I was a woman".〔〔Arseneault p. 22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lucille Teasdale-Corti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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