白求恩简介（英语）

Born on March 3, 1890 in a prominent Scottish Canadian family, Dr Henry Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the People's Liberation Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. In 1938 Bethune traveled to Yan'an in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province in China. There he joined the Chinese *s led by Mao in their struggle against the Japanese invaders. In China, Bethune specifically refused to work under Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalist government and insisted on helping the Chinese *s instead. He performed emergency battlefield surgical operations on war casualties and established training for doctors, nurses and orderlies.He did not distinguish between casualties, treating wounded Japanese *ers as well as Chinese. Stationed with the * Party of China's Eighth Route Army in the midst of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Bethune cut his finger while operating on a soldier. Probably due to his weakened state, he contracted septicaemia (blood poisoning) and died of his wounds on November 12, 1939. A *, he wrote that wars were motivated by profits, not principles.

Comrade' Bethune: A Controversial Hero
In China, he's been a national hero since his death in 1939. But in his birthplace of Canada Dr. Norman Bethune was virtually unknown until the 1970s. His * beliefs and unorthodox personality made him a controversial figure in Canada. His medical accomplishments, however, are irrefutable. Bethune cared for the wounded in wartorn Spain and China, and in the process revolutionized military medicine.