June 14, 1992

opurating
said LGH
ptomatic of

He called the departure af the
two medical specialists

“a terrible
blow to the community 7”

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LIONS GATE Hospital, « major trauma-care facility for
the Lower Mainland region,
neurosurgeons.

Insufficient :
time and equipment is sending the
neurosurgeons south to jobs in the
United States,
neurosurgeon Dr. Brian tiunt.

According to Hunt
on neurologists is sy
ily deteriorating health-care

is losing two of its three

By Michael Becker

News Reporter

at PGH since 1973, ‘th has) vir-
tuafly become untenable for us to
practive out trade. Reasonable in-
is expected. but the frustra-

tion is in not being able to treat
{Us the government in

their sestrichion of operating toom
t thar hus caused phenomenal

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WEST VANCOUVER secondary school students Steve Dipasquale (left, Grade 12) and Mat-
thew Soules (Grade 11) stand in front of a mural they painted on the outside wall of the
school's industrial education building. The mural measures 28 metres wide by 22 metres
high. Each student painted half of the mural as a final term art project, which took approxi-

mately 20 hours and 80 cans of spray paint to complete.

Deteriorating health-care system, limited
OR time cited in loss of LGH specialists

frustration. We're just second

tate, and it’s not fair.""

Dr. Barrie Purves
neurosurgeon at LGH since 19
will work his last official day of
surgery on June 19. Purves i
ing to a hospital in| Sioux
lowa.

Dr.

City,

Suddaby, a

at LGH for about

ars, Will leave the hospital
as curly as December.

suddaby is going to a hospital
in Buffalo, New York.

The United States has a current

demand fer approximately 220

neurosurgeons.
1. ar, Of nine newly trained

Canadian  ueurosurgeons, eight

feft for jobs in the United States.

Neurosurgeons working in the
U.S. can make at feast $0% more
working fewer hours. They gener-
ally have greater access to
operating room time and the latest
in diagnostic equipment.

A B.C. neurosurgeon) working
about 85 hours a week can earn a
net income of approximately
$110,000 per vear.

According to Hunt, there are
140) neurwsuresons working in
Canada. 22 of them work in B.C.
hoespiteis, Between now and nent
three B.C. neurosurgeons

year,
ing for jobs mi the 6S.

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