Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnie to Hue miss thursday. July 19, i97j mount Carmel clinic focus count not the costs but the gains executive director of mount Cormel clinic Anne Ross replies to on editorial article which appeared in the free press on july 6th. By Anne Ross an editorial article in the free press on july 15, entitled what Are the future costs raises some provoking questions concerning the recently announced expansion of the mount c Armel clinic. The writer Ben Philip has unfortunately left impressions with the Reader w h i c h appear to do based on inaccurate in formation and or per Sonal Bias. For whatever reasons of his own. He obviously failed to Avail himself of information readily accessible at the clinic or from any of the 34 Board members some of whom Are doctors and highly knowledgeable on m any of the Points which he raises in rela Tion to the medical profession. I n the first place. Mount Carmel will not be a government run Community clinic o f the Type that has received so much Adverse publicity during the past few years. Rather he expansion of this institution which has concerned itself with the Well being of the area residents since 1929. Happily fulfils Many of the principles embodied in the Community clinic concept. Mount Carmal clinic s Long standing policy to provide the widest Possi ble medical and social services to the Community has been formally endorsed by the Mani Toba medical association the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce and the Winnipeg and District labour Council. Al the close of 1972. When prospects for clinic funding appeared Bleak these bodies offered encouragement to the clinic to seek and obtain provincial sup port. Indeed the unique concern of the clinic for people first has led to its wide Rico Guition and a c c 1 a i in throughout North America. Uncertainty of funding and increasingly inadequate physical facilities have for a Long time severely restricted the Many related services which the clinic at Temple to provide to several thousand individuals and families. In offering comprehensive care the clinic daily demonstrates its philos Ophy that All personal needs should and can be met in one place. Fur t h e r it involves its users in initiating and or carrying out its support programs. The Mil lion redevelopment scheme made possible by the provincial government will allow for the kind of expansion of facilities and services which is sorely needed Al this time. It is indeed a High tribute to the credibility of Iho total care concept that so Many doctors nurses dentists technicians social workers and volunteers of All descriptions have worked tirelessly Over the years to keep the clinic operating in the face of repeated financial difficulties. Nearly All the concerns which or. Philip expresses in his article Are the result of i Nail q u a t e information or misunderstanding of the mount Carmel clinic s functions past present and future and its role in the Larser context of Winnipeg s North end. Following Are some of Hie main Points which the article has obscured or deliberately ignored 1 the clinic represents Only one part of a total health care system which includes the soon to be constructed seven Oaks Hospital and the health sciences Centre. Its emphasis on Ambula tory and outreach care and. More recently preventive health Cauca from the realm of for example acute care. All clinic departments presently operating will be upgraded and expanded including Home nursing services family and individual counselling dental pharmaceutical and optometric services. A Day h o f p i t a 1 for adults will complement the children s Day Hospi Tal which the clinic has been operating Success fully for 14 years. 2 attendance at the clinic is a matter of free Choice and will continue to be so. The patient will have the same privileges regarding these Lection of hospitals that he would have with any doctor whether in a clinic or in Solo practice. 3 As for providing leaching facilities for University faculties of Medicine dentistry so Cial work and nursing this arrangement differs in no Way from arrange ments operating in other clinics and hospitals. The health sciences c e n t r e for example makes full use of Stu dents and also enjoys a reputation for maintain ing standards of medi Cal practice among the highest in North Ameri Ca. 4 clinic doctors will not As the article states be subsidizing a government they will be paid according to fees for ser vices by salary or by session Al fees. The fact that the clinic will be largely government financed docs not make it different from other similarly funded health institutions for which the government is financially responsible. The 10 per cent contribution by the clinic and its Pri vate supporters represents equity and will not revert to the govern m e n i As or. Philip fears in Case of the clinic s demise. 5 or. Philip accuses the clinic and or govern ment of ignorance or deliberate concealment of the eventual size of the clinic s operations. Using the arbitrary ratio of one doctor per patients he draws the conclusion that at least 25 doctors and numerous ancillary staff will be required to serve people once the expansion is completed. The figure appears in a government document and refers to the estimated population of the area and not to the eventual number of clinic users. The intent of the future clinic is to serve to per sons with the a Propri a t e number of staff needed. Or. Philip s projection represents a distortion and Misin Ter petion of facts and figures. 6 far from worrying about pharmacists going h a n k r u p to the pharmaceutical association has shown much inter est in the clinic s desire to provide prescription drugs at Little or no Cost to the patient who cannot afford them. Through the association s efforts a pharmacist volunteered his services for a Mailer of months at a time when this help was most Wel come. 7 i a minor Point which the writer raises serves to illustrate the ease with which a per son May criticize a situation that he does not understand. The article asks Why a dental hygienist is to be employed at the outset and not a dentist. Is it not h e wonders for a hygienist to work without the direct super vision of a dentists the fact is five dentists and one dental assistant give part time services to the clinic meaning of course that a dentist is always in attendance. Familiarity with the clinic s Day to Day operations would have eliminated the need for this question which indirectly implies irresponsibility on the part of the clinic. 8 or. Philip is concerned with the sensible use of the taxpayer s Money. A prime exam ple is the clinic s Day Hospital for children the Only Day Hospital in Canada located in a clinic setting. Not Only have children been kept from experiencing the traumatic effects of an overnight stay in Hospi Tal but the taxpayer has been saved endless amounts of Money in High priced Hospital Beds at the children s Hospital. 9 1 do not intend to refute the article s conclusion that Good health care costs Money and that More comprehensive health care Equa 1 i z e d throughout the province would indeed Cost a great Deal of Money. The clinic s next two or three years will no doubt provide some of the answers. Those of us closely involved with t h e clinic s expansion Are hopeful that much valuable information will be gained on ways to utilize our resources for insuring Universal Quality health care at the lowest possible Cost to the taxpayer. The clinic prides itself on developing a unique comprehensive integrated program for the sole purpose of serving the people who need it most. The clinic is not interested in making Money out of human misery it is now and will remain a non profit health and social facility geared to serve the total family within the con text of its environment. Its aim is to treat peo ple with dignity con Cern consideration and respect and to utilize All disciplines so the patient can Cope in a world that is de personalized some times frightening Small voices Are crying out in Denmark s porno wilderness v Hii of Vav Mikulic id. By Kli Alex Morrisjr. Lokken. Denmark Small voices Are crying nut Lirse Days in Denmark s porno wilderness warning of the coining Sodom and go Morrah if their Call for a re i u r n to traditional christianity is not heard. Many of these dissenters from the current permissive trend arc repentant converts from the sea Miest aspects of the new morality sex prostitutes former drug addicts and other anti social ele ments who have seen the the group calling itself the Young christians is led by Johnny nor a deter mined and articulate 37-year old father of three who has warned that if the lifting of restrictions on pornography is extended to the proposed abolishing of the Legal ban in blasphemy it will Lead first in the mocking of find and ultimately in satan Wor or. Nor s warning is not without foundation. A danish porno film maker. Jens Lor gun Thorsen. Has already completed a thoroughly blasphemous production in which Jesus Christ is featured in a mass easter orgy. According to or. Noer. Or. Thorsen is Only wailing for the danish parliament to abolish the Law against Blas Phemy before showing his film in Denmark. The min ister of Justice has already recommended that the old statute be abolished and the Nril session of parliament will consider it. Or. Nor s group of Young christians were in the Van guard of protesters against the lifting of All re Striction on the publication of pornographic literature still pictures and movies. Us first Art was to plaster posters across the windows of All danish porno shows calling for a return to the Christian Virtues. Today the group s members also do social and missionary work in the hip Pic Jungles of Copenhagen and have spread their activities to the beaches Here in Northern Jutland where they arc competing with the acid Rock groups by holding a Bible Camp session. Alhino too Young christians .11 the i amp meeting Are voicing their feeling of helplessness against the Permis Sive trend so much so that they feel that Only an act of find can halt the slide to Complete licentiousness. The Young christians come from All walks of life. Str Thomsen. 21. Was a hippie himself and he still has How ing Blond hair. He has been a Young Christian since last Christmas when in the midst of a three Day search of hashish he discovered Johnny Noer instead. If i had not found god. I think i would have become a he says. I was really getting perverse Reading pornography and stealing to buy ii is an Uphill Battle. Or. Noer was recently shouted Down Al a pop festival in Norway when he tried to read the gospel to the crowd. The Way i tells in. 30.000 youths ruse up in anger and he was swept off uie stage. He _ and All the Young christians say Hal in is nonsense to draw a parallel Between permissiveness and prohibition to claim that if something is illegal its Al in activeness is enhanced and that once you legalize it peo ple soon become bored. The True parallel he says is with Harc or. Noer s feelings. People talk openly about homosexuality and group sex says Charlotte Chris Tensen. 17. I know Sixl. Moral families who try in keep the pornography out. But it gets a has changed life for Normal says Viber dam Andersen 24. Adultery and living together outside marriage Are common says. Today we have a sex madness says pall a la Juni a 26-year-old from the Faros islands. People want More and More pornography. They never get the Young christians know they Are fighting against the Odds. But they have taken heart from the Jesus move ment. Wish Ilion Post it s hard to choose when you can really save on a six Park of the real tiling. Coca cola of your 1 exact rela Iier. 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