A. Stewart Mitt‘DmmId D.F.C., M.D. C..M.

and marked tremor. I got a medical and an eye exam - no marked tremor, and my vision was 20 over 30 without glasses. 1 usually can read without glasses. He advised the Credential Committee. At the present time, according to the contract I was given, I am not supposed to assist on week- ends or after 3:30 pm. each day but can work on holidays.

I was to understand that I was to limit my Surgery to four hours of surgery a day, but the Chief of Surgery says that it is supposed to be a four hour block. The other day I worked 18 minutes in the morning at 8 am. and was not al- lowed to do a couple of assists after 12 noon. As far as this ruling, it is in the works for a possible appeal. My lawyer is still working on what is a block of Surgery of four hours, and what is a surgical block. No other assistant in my 45 years of Surgery has been given a surgical block.

Surgical blocks were added to Surgery at the Prince Edward Island Hospital when I was Chief of Staff, and I feel that the great amount of work we did in getting the block system for the Surgeons took a lot of study, and I feel I am not without the knowledge ofa block, equal to that of the present Chief of Surgery. I feel that l have lost the free- dom that I fought for in World War II, and I am not will- ing to be pushed under, by one who was not practising on Prince Edward Island, ifin Canada, when the block system was introduced into the hospitals. I was allowed to return to the OR with the stipulation mentioned above on August 19, 1998, but have suffered many long hours over the shabby treatment I have received at the hands ofa man I have not spoken to since June 8th when he called me up, although I run into him on many occasions. I must say that I have been treated well by the nursing staff and LNA’s as well as the working staff of the hospital. I have been treated with

kindness, cooperation and respect by the clerks working at the OR desk.

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