Many of you have probably never heard of this name. Even though he was a lifesaver, a man who left everything for an almost unknown cause, he was not recognized for his actions because of his beliefs. This man is Norman Bethune, a surgeon, a communist but most importantly, a dreamer.

Norman Bethune was born on March 4, 1890, in Gravenhurst, Ontario. In his childhood, he attended the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute. His father a was clergy, but his family was a long line of doctors.
He took a year off in 1911 to go to a remote mining and lumber camp nearby Sudbury to help immigrant workers with writing and speaking English. He stayed for one year, and after his return to Toronto, he enrolled in the medical school at the University of Toronto.
In a stint of patriotism at the outbreak of WW1, Bethune joined the Canadian Army’s No.2 Field …show more content…
He raised fundraisers for the Spanish cause. The Second-Sino Japanese War has started a new phase, and during this time, Bethune made to the public about his Communist beliefs, and with an ever stronger desire to help, he decided to fight on the Chinese side against the Japanese aggressors. He joined a New York-based aid council and set sail for China from Vancouver in the January of 1938. After arriving in China, Bethune than travelled to the frontlines with his team where they treated the wounded. He often made selfless moves, instead of staying in the arms of safety, he headed to the front lines. His motto was “Go to the wounded! Don’t wait for the wounded to come to you!” He also set up mobile operating units and trained others to become nurses and doctors. Once is 69 hours, he performed 115 operations. No, they were not small cuts, they were amputations. The fatigue slowly crept up to him, and one day, when he was operating on a wounded soldier, he cut his finger which got infected by septicemia and died 11 days after the