Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Akk february of course old beef kidney serve Steak a kidney pie Bologna Margarine Dale Wood 1 Catsup town bottle 909ml Orange flavour crystals Jolly 276 9 Al i intensive care lotion vaseline Soomil bottle cooking onions Manitoba Canada no 1 Grade effective monday and february 27 it 2mb All greater Winnipeg and Selkirk Safeway in retail Quant Tea a news doctors dilemma should 1 patients see medical files by Manfred Jacer should patients have a Cess to their medical rec ords can one argue that such Access is fair and necessary because the record May con Tain inaccuracies Only the patient can Correct is it reasonable to say that your doctors medical record on you is at least partly yours after it deals with you in sickness and in health and is thus very much also was it reasonable for patients in Lac Dubonnet health Centre to demand their medical records to take to a physician who had left the Centre to set up practice in the town the Centre for warded the documents but did not give them to the a the answer to All these according to con Sumer rights advocates Here and in the United states is a Clear the records May not Only be these advocates but they May be mis used by others do have lawful or unlawful Access to them and should therefore become subject to much greater Security than is now the As a result of these senti medical records Al ready arc open under legis lation enacted by several states in recent u r tax services announcement Walter Hryciuk i s r tax so vices announces the appointment of Walter Hryciuk As director of Field Hryciuk was born and educated in graduating As an a following Many years service in Canada and Europe Hryczuk retired from Trie As a senior accountant Hryczuk brings to u 4 r tax services thirty years experience in Trie income tax the last twelve years have been spent in the management and direction of expansion of store front income tax ser u h tax services is a Manitoba based firm with 29 offices in can the company provides a year round service specializing in per Sonal income tax Hryciuk will be located in u a r s courts of James patients rights advocates within the medical profess Ion in Winnipeg say the Case for allowing Access is so Strong there is virtually no Point in fighting they predict that records will become at least partly the property of the patients in parts or in All of Canada within five years at the they also say both physicians and their patients will Rue the Day when the appropriate Laws Are either federally or Why because it will change the Way Medicine is it will make All further medical records kept by physicians it will necessarily cause a deterioration of health care wherever such rights Are opponents argue that patients should definitely not have their own medical rec ords open to their you should not have a Cess to any records i keep just because i happen to mention you in one physician said this my records Are my per Sonal a letter i write to in i might say accurate or flattering or derogatory things about you in that you have no right to Sec whats in my personal the primary purpose of the medical record is for patient doctors it Means that administrative or Legal reasons for that rec Ord Are its a letter from me to myself about my Examina Tion and treatment so that i will be Able to continue that if a patient simply read the highly technical medical record it would be Likely to cause him alarm and medical records some times contain reminders by the physician to himself that a Given patient is a pathological that he exaggerates his or that he might be prone to mental a psychiatrist May write that his patient is a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from All kinds of delusions and1 other disturbances an entry the patient May very Well strongly object one physician he said occasionally patients have been Able to get hold of their own medical either by Accident or through and the result has almost always been upsetting and distr us Tulve rather than positive to the a Way out of the according to another physic is for the doctor to explain to his patient just exactly what is wrong with in fact interpreting the medical record to the patient on the basis of the Trust Al ready established Between the that much better than slapping the file on the table and in fact callously Here it read it As it the doctor added 1 May have in my record about you that i have discus sed my cancer diagnosis of you with but have so far not told you that you have no Hope of recovery and will be dead within six months from do you think any physic Ian would confide anything of major importance to his medical record on a patient if he had to expect that patient to see the record sooner or later if records become Avail Able to As even those in the medical profess Ion who promote patients rights fear they the re according to almost unanimous will be a dramatic downgrading of patient records by physic i put anything of import into the record 1 simply one doctor my records on you would become a farce you could take a look at any time at it would not be an professional record of what i found and intended to do or had done for the danger would be that doctors might forget important aspects about the Condi Tion of a Given re they Deal with hundreds of people every week and must refresh their me Mories about most before re turn physicians deciding to keep in additional set of hid Den records on their patients would be breaking the Law and could be fined or vital schools find substitutes Are choosy Byan Deblicq substitute teachers in the vital school division Are turning Down work assign ments in increasing numbers because of the divisions near minimum wages and in some cases have forced principals to teach we have had to phone As Many As 22 substitutes on our list before we can get some one to come Gordon superintendent of vital said in an interview Newton said the boards to a Day for Elemen tary school and to for Junior and be income tax returns courts of James 681 Sargent 8794 Henderson 2579 Portage 8688990 1183 Nairn 753 marys 1867 Portage 625 Selkirk my 1801 main Brandon brisk Van 22o marys he Dauphin 14 be Twat 160 Marion Polo Park Thompson Glenboro i Belmont Vowden Pilot Mound i Sandy Lake Minnedosa Selkirk weekdays 9 to saturdays 9 to 5 u i r tax services the All Canadian company Nior High substitutes Are Well below rates in other parts of the teachers phoning in sick Call a substitute clerk in the division the substitute clerk phones substitute teachers from a list of about 100 Newton said there Are Only a certain number of teachers available every Day and the hardest positions to fill arc those with certain specialities like physical Educa the Board particularly had difficulty in december and january when Many teachers were absent with the substitutes got a Little Newton the pay for substitutes haunt been adjusted since up until this year everything has been Ade he Newton said the finance committee met directly after the boards regular meeting thursday and will recommend the wages be raised to a Day for elementary school teachers and a Day for Junior and senior High school substitute teach although made the the decision is up to the school they will Newton the vital division is currently competing for substitutes with other wages for elementary school substitutes Range from Between a Day in the Assiniboine South school division to a Day in the Winnipeg rates for High school substitutes vary from a Day in the seven Oaks division to a Day in the Winnipeg Divi the pay for substitute teachers is a very confusing its a matter before the courts right said a spokesman for the Manitoba teachers society who asked not to be while wages for substitutes in some divisions Are bargained for with the regu Lar teachers form six con the spokesman said some school boards had re fused to sign substitute teachers to a the employers Are challenging whether or not substitutes should be part of the bargaining in most school divisions substitute teachers wages Are governed by gentle mens the question is really the suit ability of the form six con the parties involved should try to develop a suit Able contract that covers Par time and substitute the spokes Man the no fee resp absolutely no fees of any kind for your registered retirement savings your capital and interest Are invested at High guaranteed for 5 also a savings option yielding subject to quarterly write or drop in and see us for our 15 Page credit Lender credit fancier Trust branches coast coast saturday i to 1 un55i5 Wadna Aday to 8 Home ownership plan at 9 member Canada Deposit insurance corporation Gallup poll in a pm experienced a carefully selected Sample of canadians was asked recently to from a listing of 12 words or those they Felt would Best describe prime minister Joe Clark the Leader of the oppose and de the nip Leader in the most frequently selected descriptions of tin Deau were experienced named by 47 per and forceful specified by 43 per in about three times As Many canadians selected favourable descriptions for the prime minister As chose unfavourable the Gap Between the prime minister and the other two leaders was smaller for warm and and can be in the Case of Clark and while fewer were Able to select favourable and unfavourable phrase selection was almost at the same income interviews with 18 years and Over were completed Early in a Sample of this size is accurate within a four percentage Point margin of 19 in 20 according to the Canadian Institute of Public which conducts the Gallup after showing a card listing the descriptive these questions were asked in your which of these phrases apply to prime minister conservative Leader Clark and nip Leader de Broadbent Trudeau Clark Broadbent experienced 47 7 forceful personality 13 8 sincere 20 26 warm and Friendly 18 16 farsighted and imaginative 17 6 can be trusted 17 11 cold and Distant 15 6 not to be trusted 15 8 insincere 12 4 Dull and colourless 18 weak personality 1 18 not experienced 2 29 dont know 5 17 world copyright reserved 11 11 18 10 7 11 4 8 3 6 6 ii 38 brain injuries caused death by Jim i Taggarty the cause of death of Irene Victoria Green was sub Dura brain William Parker pcs Tifuh charged with murder in connection with the death of who died according to two doctors testimony on the morning hours of is Charles Joseph her commo Luw chief medical examiner of he was on the witness stand for about three during questioning by the Crown and Parker said the injuries inside and outside the head could be caused by two separate Trau Mas or the Force of the blow to the Chin by a Blunt such As a could cause the Haemorrhage and Frac he explained to the court other injuries which he noted during the autopsy were not by themselves causes of the deceased had blood in and around both matted Plant material and some blood clotted in the hair of the Teeth Marks on the inside of the lower minor swelling Between the left Cheek and bruising and the beginning of an abrasion near the Centre of the forehead near the hair quite a severe Bruise Over the right a Bruise on the localized bruises on the fracture of the base of the Skull underneath the a massive sub Dural blood elot from veins torn in the Region caused by rapid movement or rotation both the Haemorrhage and the amount of blood in the canal cavity Are inconsistent with the pathologist postmortem Livi Dity the drainage of blood to the lowest Point of the body after the heat ceases was very he and estimated the time of death As three hours or More be fore 10 on the time of the Parker continued listing the injuries As a tear or split in the Entrance to the Vagina caused by two similar tears in the rec and he estimated the tears occurred at six hours before the heart he found no sperm in the he told the localized abrasions were found on he left breast of the deceased he identified As Teeth and said there were also bruising on the right recent Abra Sions on the and surgical scars and multiple smaller scars on the lower portion of the he also concluded the de ceased was drunk from his analysis of blood and the medical examiner also the sliced the Haemorrhage had occurred six to 30 hours be fore he Hud seen and blood around and in the air passages were not the cause of there were at least two blows to the face and but one alone would have been sufficient to cause the and the two blows could have a doubly serious he the fracture and Hehe Merrhage could also be caused by a full on the or a fall Landing from a High place with the Force going up the under Cross the medical examiner said the various bruises and abrasions could All have Sev eral explanations if taken be Par ally and independently some could have Huppen As Long As 30 hours before the heart the deceased could have had a number of Falls explaining the or a full along with a Force to the he Parker stressed although the Marks could have been caused separately but it would be unlikely hard to and that totality was the in his the lady was abused physically by two witnesses were also called who lived in the suite below the accused and de ceased said they had heard a thumping or banging and hollering in the suite above about which lasted for about five or 10 minutes the night of Susan the Mother of the said she had seen her daughter at 7 on the night of and her daughter had left the her apartment with the she described her daughter As looking Happy and excited and Orvis As looking fun that was the last time any of the witnesses had seen either the deceased or the accused until the following Orvis had knocked on Susan greens door and said Irene is phone an am Green Testi the trial continues in the court of Queens Bench on monday when the Crown and defence will make their statements to the ;