Dr. David Mulder, the former Surgeon-in-chief of the Montreal General Hospital, says rural Quebecers deserve equal access to trauma care.
In September, after 60 years of service with the organization, thoracic surgeon Dr. David Mulder retired from his role as the Montreal Canadiens' head physician.The Habs’ team doctor is a true hockey heroBut this season, the NHL team had to say goodbye to one of its most unsung icons.
"Maybe the biggest lesson that I've learned from playing team sports … and from looking after the Montreal Canadiens, is that I treat every operation now as a team sport," he told His sporting career as a physician began with the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association in 1963. He then joined the Montreal Voyageurs — the Montreal Canadiens' American Hockey League affiliate — before being promoted to the NHL team as an assistant physician in 1969.Mulder has treated some of the team's greatest players and been a part of eight Stanley Cup championships.
"The pain was immense immediately … it was hard to breathe," McCleary said. "It felt like breathing through a straw and somebody was slowly pinching the straw and I just couldn't get any air." As Mulder and Fleischer kept his larynx open, McCleary was taken directly to an operating room at Montreal General Hospital. He underwent a tracheotomy and then had his larynx reconstructed the following day.McCleary's injury — and Mulder's role in treating it — had a lasting impact beyond the rink.
"I think Montreal was the only team that had basically right beside the ice," McCleary said. "I said if they would have been , I would have died."The shot that almost killed me: former NHLer was near death after taking puck to the throatIn 2011, Mulder had to treat then-Canadiens player Max Pacioretty after he hit a metal stanchion in the rink during play, injuring his head and brain.
Following Pacioretty's injury, the NHL changed the stanchions' square shape to rounded ones, with additional padding. "My view is that the goal of a fight is to produce a concussion. It's just to create a brain injury," he said.Best known for his long-standing role as the head physician for the Montreal Canadiens, Dr. David Mulder's remarkable career is marked by moments of terror and triumph.Mulder's impact goes beyond hockey. A trauma centre in Montreal General Hospital is named after him, in part because he helped restructure trauma care in Quebec.
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