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Earle Parkhill Scarlett was born in High Bluff, Manitoba in 1896 to Reverend Robert A. Scarlett and Alma Parkhill Scarlett. In 1906, the family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Scarlett left home at the age of 15 and made his way by teaching summer school. He entered Wesley College (now the University of Winnipeg) at 16 where he pursued his Bachelor of Arts. During this time, he served as editor of the college journal, Vox Wesleyana. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1916, Scarlett joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and fought in WWI, becoming severely wounded in the Battle of Arras. Following his time in the military, Scarlett decided to study medicine and enrolled at the University of Toronto. While there, he fostered his passion for academic journals, founding and editing the first undergraduate medical journal in North America, the University of Toronto Medical Journal. Scarlett achieved his Bachelor of Medicine in 1924 and that same year he married Jean Odell, with whom he went on to have three children, Robert, Elizabeth, and Katherine.
After graduation, Scarlett did his postgraduate work and fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan from 1925-27. He was then an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the State University of Lowa from 1927-30. In 1930, Scarlett moved back to Canada, settling in Calgary, Alberta where he joined the Calgary Associate Clinic as a specialist in internal medicine. From 1931-51, he conducted sexual education classes for high school boys through the YMCA, the first venture of its kind in the city. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1932 and a fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1946. Along with his Clinic colleague Dr. George Stanley, Scarlett founded the Historical Bulletin, a quarterly medical history journal, which ran from 1936-58. Scarlett served as president of the Calgary Associate Clinic as well as a senior consultant in medicine at Colonel Belcher Hospital, both from 1947-58.
Dr. Earle Parkhill Scarlett received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary. Scarlett was a prolific writer, authoring more than 450 papers, articles, monographs, and book contributions. He died in 1982 at the age of 86.