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work with. One day I made a complaint to the nurses for not calling me when a patient died during the night, which was always done in Halifax. I slept in a small room about 8 X 12 feet. The next room they used for a morgue, if anyone died during the night. They were fixing a light on the wall between the rooms and there was a large hole between

the two rooms above my bed. The next night after I made the complaint, I was awakened by the nurse wheeling a dead man into my room, saying, ”We just wanted to let you know, if he comes to during the night, and he puts

his hand through the hole in the wall, you will know who it is.” I never worked in a hospital with such goodwill among the staff - all worked together as a team. I got many assists in Surgery with Drs. Laidlaw, Rachmel, and Giddings.

Dr. Laidlaw, although he swore at himself in the OR, treated me well, and we formed a life long friendship. He helped me when I was a young doctor in Eldon. I always knew I had backup, even in medicine, when he was around. One night when I was stuck on my first patient with acute facial paralysis, Dr. Laidlaw read a chapter of a book to me over the phone, explaining how to handle it. I did many cases with him, as an assistant Surgeon through the next number of years. Not a week goes by that I do not think of him in the operating room.

I got credit for 108 Obstetric cases when interning in the Prince Edward Island Hospital. I did a lot of work with Dr. Rachmel, who was always at my beck and call when I got into problems while I was in Eldon. Dr. Irwin was always cooperative. When I was leaving the Prince Edward Island after three months, I had to work an extra month for another Doctor. I was packed and going out the door, when I was called to deliver a baby in the ambulance entrance. I can still see the steam arising off that poor

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