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Health input necessary

Dear Editor:

Six months ago, I would have agreed
with your Aug. 3 editorial “Heaith
Hooey.” Why is the North Shore Heaith
Region spending so much time and
money asking us “What Makes us
Healthy"? After all, we all know the
answer is diet, exercise and adequate
funding of hospitals.

Curious, I decided to listen. I found
opportunities to hear speakers from the
health region. I participated in their
group planning sessions. I read the book
Strong Medicine by Michael Rachlis, MD
and Carol Kushner. I’ve learned a lot.
Ive discovered:
® Prior to the Second World War, a lot of
our health care focus was on public health

and prevention. But with the advent of
effective drugs and surgery following the
Second World War, we’ve come to expect
magic bullets to rescue us when we have
a health crisis.

@ The pendulum may be swinging the
other way. In the consultation sessions I
attended, people really wanted to focus
on all the bits that help Keep, us healthy
and out of hospitals. One friend in my
hiking group commented: “We may not
know each others’ last names, but we
know each others’ lives,” and noted how
critical this social and emotional connec-
tivity is to physical and mental health.

@ The pooling of many of the health
resources allocated to the North Shore
under one governing body allows us to

look at our particular demographics and
fund the responses that best fit our
unique set of health issues.

But why ask me, a member of the gen-
eral public? Because my health is impor-
tant to me! If how my health is support-
ed might change, it is imperative that I
have opportunities to talk; to express my
concerns, fears and ideas; to explore and
chailenge new concepts and old beliefs.
So I thank the health region for asking!

The challenge now is to ensure the
health region doesn’t consult forever, but
gets on with it and sses the information,
and that we support them when they do.
P. Bonny Bal}

North Vancouver
bdball@istar.ca

Dear Editor:

For those folks who
were looking for a reason
to shop at Future Shop,
here it is, as taken from a
flyer in a recent North
Shore News:

“Back to school prices
on radical games.
Carmageddon: Get points
for running over pedestri-
ans.”

Kind of makes you sick,
doesn’t it.

Simon Farrow
North Vancouver

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Obey the law, avoid cash grab

Dear Editor:

Vd like to submit my addi-
tion to Doug Collins’ and
reader Dan McKeachern’s list
of ways to fight the cash grab
of photo radar.

Minc is a simple idea with
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vers. We don’t have to buy a
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error). If you don’t go
through red lights, don’t fol-
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lanes without signaling, and
don’t drive poorly in any
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traffic ticket.

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all. That'll teach them!

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politicians asking bad drivers
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everyone learns the above tip
just to deny the politicians of
this cash grab.

Michael Parshale
North Vancouver

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