dr. anthony ly canada obituary begins not with a headline, but with a pause—the kind that settles over hospital corridors after night rounds, when fluorescent lights hum and memory does the work words cannot. Obituaries are meant to be summaries, yet the best of them are thresholds: they ask us to step inside a life and feel its gravity before we count its milestones. A Name, a Place, a Responsibility To read an obituary anchored to Canada is to enter a civic tradition shaped by public service and professional trust. Medicine in Canada has long carried a particular social contract—rooted…