Dr. E.H. Botterell, extracts from 1993 interview

Dr. E.H. Botterell, extracts from 1993 interview

Spinal injury medical protocol

Extracts from an interview conducted by Dr. Mary Tremblay for research into the experiences of persons with spinal care injuries in the 1940s and 1950s. She interviewed Dr. E.H. (Harry) Botterell on August 10 1993. Dr. Botterell was a neurosurgeon and the Canadian originator of the modern protocols for treatment of patients with spinal care injury. He began developing the protocols in the 1930s in working with three patients and perfected it during the Second World War at the Canadian war hospital at Basingstoke, England. In the interview Dr. Botterell recounts the changes that had to be made in the attitudes of the medical establishment to ensure patients with spinal care injuries received modern treatment.

Dr. Mary Tremblay

McMaster University, Medical Services Library Special Collections, Tremblay Fonds, HCM T-002-093

Carleton University Disability Research Group

August 10, 1993

McMaster University, Medical Services Library Special Collections

Extracts made with permission of the Curator, McMaster University, Medical Services Library Special Collections. For further use, contact the curator.

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Taped interview

EHBotterell_Extracts.mp3