Quinn Thomas is cycling across Canada to raise awareness of organ donation. He was in Greater Sudbury Aug. 15. Photo by Heidi Ulrichsen.
Greater Sudbury has highest registration rates in Ontario
As a medical student who often shadows doctors as part of his training, Quinn Thomas has sat in on many patient exams.
In doing so, he said he felt “absolutely useless” to patients, because he doesn't have enough education to help them yet.
The 21-year-old Université Laval student, who completed his second year of medical studies at the Québec City school this past spring, started thinking about things he could do to help people's health that doesn't require a medical degree.
That's where the idea to ride his bicycle across Canada to raise awareness of registering to become an organ donor came from.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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