Elizabeth Thompson didn’t expect to end up back in Winkler.
Growing up in the area, she had no idea becoming a doctor was an option. Prevailing examples in the rural southern Manitoba community pointed more toward a future with marriage and kids, maybe shortly after graduation.
Now 41, she is married and has two kids under the age of four.
Dr. Thompson also leads a team of 13 surgeons at the C.W. Wiebe Medical Centre, a private clinic in Winkler, who also have surgical privileges at Boundary Trails Health Centre, the hospital between the cities of Winkler and Morden.
Ten of those surgeons are
