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https://gay.hfxns.org/pics/DrBobFredrickson/2014-09-27.jpg 2014-09-27 =Dr Bob Fredrickson= In the 1970s and 1980s, doctor to the Q community in Halifax. '''Why did you originally move to Canada?''' I graduated from medical school in Cincinnati in 1974. Big city teaching hospitals associated with medical school often cater to the indigent, especially in the USA, where often the care you get is dependent on how much you can pay or if you have private insurance. Having been brought in a politically left-leaning family hugely sensitive to equality, I was appalled I was being trained in a system where that system was not only racist, elitist but also amoral. Upon learning more of the Canadian system that provided equal access to equal care for everyone, the pretty money, little cars and electric kettles (never heard of ‘em) was a no brainer. But... that choice could be a bit more blurry today.{{2024-09-28 comment on a Facebook post about how beautiful Nova Scotia is during Canadian Thanksgiving.}} I retired from practice around 2000, but continued to work with Family Focus and the Med Society with doctors in trouble, till 2010.{{2022-02-28 Pers corr with DanielMacKay}} : One thing that happened that I had not expected, is the number of my friends I treated with this disease growing into the hundreds. There’s an incredible intimacy that is spawned between the physician and the family, an intimacy that becomes more intense as that ballet moves toward its finale. Very weirdly though, if I ran into those people a month or two later, that intimacy would have morphed into almost a need to avoid me. I totally understand that: I am the personification of the hell they have just been through, a hell no one wants to rekindle. Thankfully, it didn’t happen that often.{{2024-12-21 [https://www.facebook.com/bob.fredrickson.946/posts/pfbid02QnFuvkLfQLW6B1Kv2w61viSGbVyfqv1wuWcVN4FoMx3JGHcYjkZqhUuNo93t4dRKl Facebook posting]}} FrankMagazine wrote that Dr. Bob Fredrickson's patients see him more as a friend than as a physician. He'll take that as a compliment The scathingly satirical Frank, a publication not known for being kind to the people it writes about, recently described Halifax family physician Dr. Bob Fredrickson as "the boy wonder of Queen Street who ministers to a large and loyal flock of iconoclastic sickos who universally regard him as a friend rather than a physician." Dr. Fredrickson laughs heartily at the magazine's unusual praise, but admits the comments did concern him. "In a way I felt pretty good about what they said, although I wondered how my patients would react. But I recognize that I do attract a different type of clientele... I operate on a walk-in basis and that's not for everyone. My concept of health goes beyond finding the right combination of pills to keep a b.p. below 140/90 ..." ===Timeline=== ; 1994 : TheCoast '''94 people who make Halifax happen.'''{{https://www.thecoast.ca/best-of/1998/public-life/best-doctor-3185182}} ; 1998 : TheCoast '''Best Doctor'''{{https://www.thecoast.ca/best-of/1998/public-life/best-doctor-3185182}} ; 2011-12-01 : Dr Bob was keynote speaker at the Nova Scotia AIDS Commission. Article about it in the January-February 2012 WayvesMagazine Tags: NeedsBioCategory - a much better bio, dates for his practice, links to his community activities, and a picture. Tags: GayFriendlyDoctors, HistoryProject, HistoryPeople, AIDSHistoryCategory

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