Background
The son of Review Canon Ernest Rusted and Faith Hollands Rusted, he was born in Salvage, Newfoundland and grew up in Upper Island Cove.
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Nigel Rusted
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Education
Rusted attended high school in Saint John"s and attended newly established Memorial University College, graduating in 1927. He attended Dalhousie Medical School and, during the summers, worked as health officer aboard the Steamship Kyle, which visited communities along the Labrador coast.
Career
He is credited with having made outstanding contributions to the medical profession in Newfoundland and Labrador. He interned at the tuberculosis sanatorium in Kentville, at the Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow and at the Victoria Hospital in Halifax. After graduating in 1933, Rusted accepted a position at the Saint John"s General Hospital.
After suffering a severe throat infection in 1935, he worked on the floating clinic ship Move Files Lady Anderson for a year.
In 1936, he opened a private clinic in Saint John"s and also became a junior surgeon at the General Hospital. From 1954 to 1968, he served as chief surgeon at the General Hospital.
He also served as medical director, chief of staff and chief surgeon at the Grace General Hospital. Rusted retired from surgery in 1982 at the age of 75 and, in 1987, he retired from clinical practice.
He had also served on the first board of regents for Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1951 to 1957.
Rusted died at the Health Sciences Centre in Saint John"s at the age of 104. Honours and 1950: Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Achievements
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1950: Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons 1950: Fellow of the International College of Surgeons 1974: Senior Membership of the Canadian Medical Association 1986: Nigel Rusted Lectureship on the History of Surgery, founded by Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland 1996: William B. Spaulding Certificate of Merit for contribution to the history of medicine in Canada, awarded by Associated Medical Services, Toronto 2010: Life Membership of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011 He was named to the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007. He was given the Canadian Version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. He was given the Freedom of the City of Saint John"s in 2008. He was Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1973. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Allowing Him to use the Post Nominal Letters "FRSC".
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March 18, 2012 (aged 104)
Awards
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Member of the Order of Canada Certificate of Merit; Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal; Order of Canada
This award recognizes significant endeavors.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.This award recognizes significant endeavors.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.