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exchange students. from Hong Kong, together in considerable disharmony,” she says. “It was’ also’ the year’ we renovated: which was bad timing.”

On top. of all. that, her

husband and she reversed”

-roles for ‘a time, with her continuing to work and her husband going .back to university. “I think.the kids

_ had a bit of a hard time with our role. reversal, but I

would have been working |

anyhow. By that time I was

“so used to being the support —

of the family that it didn’t make any difference.”

DEATH AND DYING

Death . and. dying was handled much better in earlier times when it was considered a natural part of living, says Dr. Hunter,

“I think that many. people

today afe' afraid of even

thinking about death and.

that’s because there’ is ‘so “much emphasis being put on the living and also because death is considered to be some kind of failure, even for the. person who dies. So we shy away from it.”

: She very strongly believes in’ the patient's ‘right-to- know’. “I. -always. .tell. a patient ‘the truth. You can

tell them in ways. that they .

can cope with and you don’t: have to load it-all-on. them, all at once, in harsh terms.

“y ‘think it is grossly unfair:

not to tell someone the most

essential thing they need to know about themselves.”

“HOSPITAL FUNDING

One of the problems with hospitals -- all hospitals, and Lions Gate is ‘a good example - is that there is not enough money and too few beds, according to Dr. Hunter.

Part of the reason there aren’t enough beds is that

,

“We all lived

‘Lions’ Gate the kitchen, |

simple economics.

, hospital. a

. but the .

‘ipso facto,

care’ facilities, but those facilities aren't available. “And so the bed situation at desperate,” she says.

The problem is one of

“reset 7

“y don’t “understand ‘the.

rationale, I can’t. see. that there is a ‘rationale, :

“keeping hospitals short of

money. The government has

@ very strange idea of how

much money it takes tor run a

“Hospitals ° ‘are ‘now in a

position of having to make a

choice as to’ whether to cut back services: or‘ cut -back: beds or scrape and make do, which is a terrible | set of alternatives.” HEALTH CARE . _ TODAY

_ Inour grandparents time, doctors ‘were awesome figures whose pronounce-

ments. were accepted without question or debate,

siderably different today as

people are taking more and .

more responsibility for their own health. -

“I think the doctors-were-

‘gods: myth: served a‘purpose~ at. the time 7 prevalent. very different 50 years ago.

‘Education was

from what it is now and a lot of people‘ did not have the advantage of having very much education. Doctors, ‘at least had education if nothing else.”

And so in many’ ways doctors .were qualified to make decisions with a broader understanding of basic alternatives, but that situation doesn’t apply today, says Dr. Hunter.

“People have come to realize that there’s more to medicine than just book learning and that a lot of it is the contribution the patient makes to the whole scene.”

‘Gripe night’ Thursday

‘Gripe Night, or What Really Irritates You’ will be the topic for discussion at the first of the regular monthly mectings of the Nor-West Branch of the Consumers’ Association of Canada, at Highland United Church, 3255 Edgemont Blvd., on Thursday, Sep- tember 27 at 8 p.m.

Jean Douglas, immediate past president of the B.C. Branch of the Consumers’ Association and a long time resident of the North Shore,

Painting to.

The Federation of Canadian Artists will be “gaffling the painting St. Vincent's California Mission by North Shoro artist Byron Lance King, A.F.C.A.

Tickets for this watercolor

may be purchased at the.

Federation Gallery, 367

will be the guest speaker, Douglas has been actively involved in solving consumer problems and defending the rights of consumers before industry and government for many years.

Computer problems, mail order hang ups, rusting cars,

environmental pollution, whatever is raising your blood pressure — you are

invited to attend and learn what can be done to solve your ‘gripe’.

be raffled

Weter Street, Vancouver, at

two for $1,00. Proceeds of.

the raffie help to support the Federation Gallery which is a non-profit organization.

The winner of ‘Klaloch’ by Allan W. Edwards, was Jocelyn Cannon of West Vancouver.

is absolutely. -

picture is con-

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