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Profile 3 - James Low
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.By Bill Hutchins with photography
by David Bell
 It’s
easy to describe Dr. James Low as an obstetrician, except there
was much more to his work than delivering babies. He spent the better
part of his half-century career in medicine making sure they had
a fighting chance of survival before delivery.
There are, no doubt, children and mothers who probably owe their
survival to Jim’s visionary approach as a professor of obstetrics
and gynecology and pediatrics. He embodied the term “an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of cure” through decades of
teaching, research and recruiting top talent to Kingston.
Now if only the good doctor could master the art of delivering drunken
sailors back to their ship. The Second World War veteran recalls
a memorable event during his service with the Canadian Navy in 1945,
before his medical career took off.
“It was VE [Victory in Europe] night in Halifax. There were
10,000 service people looking to blow off steam, and the city organized
nothing for them. It triggered a riot.”
So the navy dispatched Jim from his posting in the dockyards medical
unit to try and coax some of the rowdies back to their base. “I
was sent out in an ambulance to round up the drunks. We spent eight
hours cruising the streets. . . .
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