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Walid Harati comforts his 4-year-old daughter Lamis, writhing in pain from a recent bone break. The Libyan youngster, who has brittle bone disease (her bones had broken more than 50 times), was being treated at the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Dr. Yves Langlois prepares to put a 'harvested' saphenous vein in a small bowl containing a solution to keep it moist prior performing a triple bypass heart operation on patient at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Yves Langlois performs a triple bypass heart operation at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Yves Langlois (right) performs a triple bypass heart operation on a patient at the Jewish General hospital with the assistance of Dr. Eric Keyser.

Dr. Yves Langlois performs a triple bypass heart operation at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Eric Keyser finishes closing the chest of a patient after assisting Dr. Yves Langlois in a triple bypass heart operation at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Yves Langlois checks on a patient he'd performed a triple bypass heart surgery on ealier in the day at the Jewish General Hospital. He was in the Intesive Care Unit with nurse Martin Reichherzer.

Dr. Yves Langlois phones the wife of a man he’d just performed a a triple bypass heart operation on at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Louise Miner performs a caesarian section delivery at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Louise Miner delivering a baby by caesarian section at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Louise Miner with a baby she’d just delivered at the Jewish General hospital.

Dr. Rolando Del Maestro and other medical staff prepare a patient before removing a brain tumour.

Dr. Rolando Del Maestro puts a probe in the brain of a patient and monitors the position of a tumour at the Montreal Neurological hospital.

Dr. Rolando Del Maestro (left) speaks to a patient through a drape during an operation to remove her brain tumour at the Montreal Neurological hospital.

Dr. Rolando Del Maestro prepares to re-attach a skull section after removal of a brain tumour from a patient..

Senior oncology nurse Chantal Cloutier takes a blood sample from a patient at the Oncology clinic at the Jewish General hospital.

Senior oncology nurse Chantal Cloutier prepares an injection for a patient at the Oncology clinic at the Jewish General hospital.

Senior oncology nurse Chantal Cloutier departs at the end of her shift at the Oncology clinic at the Jewish General hospital.

I.C.U. nurse Brigitte Vachon meets with her patient near the start of her shift at the I.C.U. at the Jewish General hospital.

While doctors and medical staff discuss her patient during rounds, I.C.U. nurse Brigitte Vachon looks back at him at the I.C.U. at the Jewish General hospital.

Chief physician Denny Laporta (right) and medical staff of the I.C.U. at the Jewish General hospital discuss a course of action during rounds as I.C.U. nurse Brigitte Vachon tends to her patient.

I.C.U. nurse Brigitte Vachon (centre) works at the I.C.U. at the Jewish General hospital.

While writing a report, I.C.U. nurse Brigitte Vachon does a visual check on her patient in the I.C.U. at the Jewish General hospital.

Palliative care nurse Joane Lacroix talks with a patient on the palliative care unit at the Jewish General hospital.

Palliative care nurse Joane Lacroix with a patient on the palliative care unit at the Jewish General hospital.

Nurse orthopedic technician Stéphanie Thierry makes some marks on a scarline of an amuputated leg of 11-year-old Mykola Nyzhnykovskyi at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Montreal. Mykola lost his legs and an arm in East Ukraine and sustained other serious injuries from an exploding grenade that killed his younger brother.

Alla Nyzhnykovska helps her 11-year-old son, Mykola Nyzhnykovskyi, put on a prosthetic leg prior to a session where he walked on them with a physiotherapist at Shriners Hospitals for Children. Mykola lost his legs and an arm in East Ukraine and sustained other serious injuries from an exploding grenade that killed his younger brother.

Dr. Reggie Hamdy, chief of surgery at Montreal’s Shriners Hospitals for Children with a device called an Ilizarov, that a young patient was fitted with. Once attached, the fixator would slowly stretch a deformed leg into the right position over several months.

Physiotherapist Stephanie Gould works with Thanh Hien Dang as they use a video game as part of therapy at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Montreal. The youngster was run over by a bus in Vietnam. Doctors there were able to save her life, but her right foot was not repaired properly. Doctors at the Shriners fixed the foot in a 12-hour operation with the expectation that she would again walk normally.