By Lan and By Air

aging for a week and offered me a new straw hat. I refused, instead buying a more expensive hat.

The next night, when I went to Riverside, one ofthe attendants asked me ifI had taken his hat by mistake; it was 10 years old.

I met many militiamen during my years in the army. Many of them had considerable experience in the ac- tive Army in France and Africa during World War II.

Anotherjob I had during my years in the DVA was the position of Registrar ofthe Medical Council of PEI,

a position I kept for 20 years. Although I was never paid even 5 cents for this service, there was a fee of $3,000.00 a year, paid for the use of my office. The other benefit of this job was the office equipment the Council provided, such as a typewriter. To cover this fee, every doctor on PEI was required to pay $25.00 a year. When I stopped, the fees for the Registrar‘s office jumped to $18,000.00 and the office was paid for by the Council. The cost ofbeing an active doctor on PEI is now over $600.00, a year while doctors over 65 pay halfthis fee.

The Medical Council is now called a College, and they along with their lawyers, have more trouble in one year than I had in twenty—three. Of course, we had a differ- ent type of doctor back then, as well as a population which respected the doctors. Patients weren’t waiting to get a large insurance fee. Lawsuits have increased the insurance fee for doctors from $10.00 when [joined to as high as $24,000.00 for some of the doctors today.

I was on duty seven days a week for 24 hours a day. Doctors seeking registration were able to walk into my house at any time without an appointment.

One night, after midnight, the doorbell rang. When I went to the door, there was a large man who looked like

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