A, Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., MD. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     j the end, for he got a good pension. 
     
    
   
   
    
     j My next trip to Ottawa, his way of telling me that 
     
    

    
     it was not my job to get pensions was to say, "You should 
     
    

    
     i have been here a few months ago when the medical 
     
     examining doctors were saying, ’Who does that SOB of a 
     
     doctor in Charlottetown think he is.”’ I took the hint. 
     
    

    
     Another time, all the S.T.M.O.'s were having a 
     
     meeting, talking about sore backs and discs. I used to do 
     
     surgery on discs with Dr. DeLima, and he had a book 
     
     just on discs, which I studied from page to page. All the 
     
     questions that came up, I knew the answers. It was just 
     
     luck, as I had just finished the book. When I got home to 
     
     Charlottetown, I received a memo that the conference was 
     
     assessing the S.T.M.O.’s, and that I got an A, the highest 
     
     degree for knowledge. 
     
    

    
     When I worked as the S.P.M.E. and the S.T.M.O., 
     
     there were two offices in the Dominion Building. I not only 
     
     had to examine patients for treatment, but I also had to 
     
     keep a pharmacy, in which we delivered drugs to patients 
     
     and also by mail. Although the clerk, Chester Donovan, 
     
     measured out the drugs, I was responsible for any errors. 
     
     The Department of Veterans Affairs would send an 
     
     inspector to check all the drugs. We called him Kill Joy. We 
     
     had a big storage area where we transferred the drugs we 
     
     needed to the pharmacy. 
     
    

    
     One night, we knew Kill Joy was in Charlottetown, 
     
     and we five department employees went over all the drugs 
     
     in the storehouse. We knew from experience, that if we 
     
     were a bottle of drugs short, or if we had a couple of extra 
     
     bottles in the pharmacy, we were in for severe criticism. 
     
     The next day, he could not find a mistake. 
     
    

    
     One time in New Brunswick, he could not find a 
     
     mistake and he had sent the drug squad crew down, as he 
     
    
   
   
    
     felt there must be some shady grey area present. 
     
    
   
   
    
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