8 - Wednesday, February 21, 1996 — North Shore News THE FOLLOWING is a list of recent North Shore emer- gency incidents: I EGIN D+ Mosquito Creek area. An outboard motor was stolen wee from a berthed vessel. The motor 7y was valued in excess of $3,000. February 2 Lower Lonsdale area. A fire call was received to a deep-sea vessel while in dry dock for repairs. Sparks from @ weider started the fire. The fire was quickly extinguished with minimal damage and no injuries. Number of medical ‘ad calls: 4 Number of public service calls: 0 1500-btk. Burrill Ave. 6-year-old’s hand stuck in chair. 1800-blk. Tatlow Ave. Single-famity residential fire. ’ February 10 Number of medical aid calls: 4 Number of public service calls: 0 ¥ebruary 11 Number of medical aid calls: 4 Number of public service calls: 0 1000-bik. Churchill Cres. Commercial/industrial fire. Cove Cliff Ra/Cliffmont. Pole/transformer fire. February 12 Number of medical aid calls: 4 Number of public service calls: 0 power tools, china cabinet, food and — break and. ent truck. Value approximately $5,000. plus truck. imac BREAK ‘AND, oi January 6 1400-blk. Dominion St. Entry gained through insecure window. Pallets of food were loaded onto truck with. forklift. Stolen: February yo Number of medical oid calls: 3 1400-bik. St. Georges Ave. Ring removal. February 10. Number of medical » aid calls: 4 February 11 - January 14 Lonsdale Ave: and 23rd St. ‘ fwo-vehicle accident. ._ No° injuries. Charges: failure to yield ¢ on right turn. at red, light. Approximately $5,000 damage. January 1 Assist Squamish Decachment. Break, enter, and theft. P.S.D. Jasper tracked a suspect from a : Advertisement . Fitness World changes the . way you think about fitness. . The way. you think about - yourself. We do more than workout ‘your body. We . workout your life. Body and _mind. That’s the key to Fitness Word's philosophy. 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She gasped. “Blood, blocd.” My head is lying in a pool of blood. Suddenly she felt the “blood streaming from her nose. For four hours she tried everything to stop the nose bleed. Nothing would work. “I’ve got to do something drastic. I’ve lost too much blood. I’m weak. Exhausted. It's 4 o'clock in the morning. There's only one “~~ her jaw in the process. When Sarah was released : : from hospital she called her lawyer. “Sue that emergency doctor for $50 million.” No,’ make it $100 million. He has got.to pay. for the: horrible ee ‘and pain’ and: thing left to do.” Sarah put on her coat and ‘Basegon A Actual the doctor should have made called a taxi. “Take me to emergency. Hurry.” Sarah was too weak to walk, The taxi driver helped her into St. Mary’s emergency ward. The hospital staff took the pertinent information and placed Sarah in one of the hospital beds.’ The emergency ward doctor pulled back the curtains and walked in. “Well, well, what have we here?” Sarah pointed to her nose. The tissues were soaked in blood. “Not to worry. We'll fix that up in a moment.” The doctor cauterized her nose. “All right, Miss Sarah, your nose should be fine.” The doctor left the cubicle and rushed to the next emergency patient. Sarah started to get up from the hospital bed, “Oh | feel so faint, the room is spinning........” Before Sarah could cry for help she crashed to the floor in a dead faint, breaking Don Margot ‘Cynthia Dan Jabour Spence Joseph Sudeyko - good ‘enough condition to g safely to the waiting room. He just left me there t faint and fall off the bed. His actions were nothin short of negligent.” The emergency. doctor was ten and nervous. “Your hones, the etnergency ward‘is |” different from any other ward in the hospital. A busy emergency ward doctor does not have the saine . amount of time to spend with a patient as ph ysicians J otherwise would. | did: what { had :to do in;the emergency ward, namely, stop the nose bleed. 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