Local physician Dr. William Hanlon recently returned home to Cochrane after spending about a month on his own in Siberia to provide medical support to the Buryat near the Mongolian border.
Read more here: http://www.cochranetimes.com/2017/06/12/dr-hanlon-marks-30-years-spreading-medical-knowledge-around-world
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After three decades of helping people around the world, Cochrane Doctor Bill Hanlon is being awarded a prestigious medical award from Ireland that honours those who make exceptional contributions to medicine and society.
“We need to open up to other cultures and not build walls,” Hanlon said, after returning from a recent expedition to Russia.
“What I loved about this trip was it pares down things. You are selective on what you bring and it pares it down to the minimum. Food, shelter, health – the rest is just extra. If we took more to other people in the world, it would make a big difference and not really impact us here.”
Source: http://www.cochraneeagle.com/article/Expedition-doctor-earns-prestigious-medical-award-20170406
Community builders honoured with awards – Cochrane Eagle
Ambassador of the Year:
(Category Sponsor: Cochrane Community Awards Committee)
Dr. William Hanlon
Community Awards Celebrate Cochrane’s Finest – CochraneNow
The Cochrane Community Awards were celebrated yesterday afternoon (May 28) at the RancheHouse.
An opportunity to recognize outstanding work by individuals, groups, and businesses for their hard work and efforts to make Cochrane a great community.
Valerie McCracken, Community Awards Chair, says it was another fabulous afternoon with smiles, cheers, applause, and even a few tears.
“I think every year we wonder how we’re going to continue to find people to recognize and acknowledge but again we had 13 absolutely deserving recipients. It was a great afternoon it had all the heartfelt recognition and a wonderful way to celebrate our community.”
UCC Medical school medal awards on 24th May 2017
L to R: Prof Patrick O Shea (President University College Cork), Prof Ted Dinan (Prof Psychiatry UCC), Dr Bill Hanlon (2017 Medical School Medal recipient), Prof Mary Horgan (Dean Medical School UCC) : photo Donagh Glavin
School talk in Ireland (16 students total in school from 6-12 years!) on 26th May 2017
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Some more sights and sounds from Baikal.
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These are some of the sights and sounds from Baikal.
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Source: Cochrane doctor completes 720 km solo expedition across frozen Siberian lake | News Talk 770 (CHQR)
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Meeting 62-year-old Dr. William Hanlon at his clinic in Cochrane, you wouldn’t guess the local family doctor recently conquered a 720 km walk across a frozen lake in Siberia. But Dr. Hanlon is no stranger to the extremes of nature. He completed the seven summits (including Mount Everest) in 2007, and just last year spent…
Source: Cochrane doctor returns from solo trek across world’s oldest lake | Calgary Herald
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This has been a very special experience to get to travel on the surface of the oldest and deepest lake in the world, containing 20% of the worlds freshwater
With global warming and droughts happening in many parts of the world this increases the significance of Lake Baikal to us all across the globe
This issue in itself highlights the importance of international cooperation and dependence for the overall good of the planet
Back in Irkutsk
Travelling 24 hours a day on the surface of this dynamic place of shamans, mystics, tremendous natural beauty and energy allows one to reflect on what is important in life
Pearing things down to what we can carry or pull helps focus on the essentials in life to survive
Taking a long walk in this remote and beautiful place allowed conversations from the sled to reflect on the great caravans of people such as Marco Polo travelling long distances over a long time
Back in Moscow
Those caravans of travellers, pilgrims, artisans,traders moving back and forth from Europe, through Central/ South Asia to the Far East allowed a great mixing of cultures, languages, new ideas/inventions, produce, resources
Travel in my mind is the best classroom for education, tolerance, respect and compassion for other cultures
It is time to build more bridges in today’s world and less walls
Travelling solo in Siberia and other remote places over the years without a knowledge of the local language gives me a greater respect for the challenges and hurdles that new emigrants and refugees bear on coming to a new country
Working medically in remote communities over the past 30 years has given me so much more insight to how lucky we are in the western world to have high quality health care and reasonably good access and how challenged the most vulnerable particularly in the rest of the world……
So thanks to all of you for following the expedition and hanging in
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Let’s see what the next year brings….
From Hobnails, Scellig and the rest of the team…..
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Thanks to all the team members including Hobnails( feet and boots), Scellig the sled, Snowshoe the hare, Sally the stove, Tommy the tent, Freddy the food, Foxy the fuel and all the other support equipment for holding together to help bring the expedition to a conclusion
We look forward to receiving those drawings from all those kids and wanna be kids out there!
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