Dedication: Honoring Balfour Michael Morgan Mount, OC, OQ, MD, FRCSC, LLD - The Father of North American Palliative Care

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America is dedicated to the father of Palliative Care in North America, Balfour Michael Morgan Mount, OC, OQ, MD, FRCSC, LLD, also described as the “compassionate vanguard of Palliative Care.” Dr Mount was named “Balfour” by his father, a neurosurgeon, in honor of his colleague and mentor, Donald Church Balfour, who is famous for his many contributions to surgery, including the abdominal Balfour retractor, which we all know of today.
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