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could explore this system. He got information from New Brunswick where the block system was in force. Thsre were many hitches in introducing this system in question. Little did I know that after 20 years it would haunt me in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital when a would-be dictator would decide to place me in a block system which was never made for an Assistant, and I have been the first and only one on which it has been tried.

I finished off the last two years ofthe life ofPEI Hospital as Chief of Staff. No doubt, if one examined the old records, one can follow my progress.

To keep up my medical training, I joined up with the Family Practice meetings. This is a Canadian wile organization. One has to study 50 hours a year, as wall as a number of reading hours. These meetings were at night and did not cut into my DVA time. I was president for a couple of years, and this meant meeting in different areas in Canada which I attended in Vancouver, Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal and other cities. The treatment services in DVA thought it was a good idea to keep up with the times. and as I was the only S.T.M.O. taking the course, they vxere willing to allow me the time to go to the meetings. My last meeting as president was in Banff where I was presented with the Fellowship in The College of Family Physicians of Canada (FCFPC). l was studying for a certification which is not necessary for Fellowship.

Each chapter was to start our research program. I was unable to get anyone interested, so I had to take it on myself. I decided to study the effects of gastrectomies on the individual on which it was performed. I had 40 \eter- ans who had gastrectomies. I soon found that sugars taken every half hour were useless, and they had to be eve'y 15 minutes. It took some persuasion to change the suga‘ toler— ance curve. I found that they could go from a very l(w to a

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