The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

PAGE 2 TERRACE BAY NEWS APRIL 14, 1976 TERRACE 'BAY ST. MARTIN'S CHURCH - Rev. A. Greengrass SUNDAY MASS - 8:30 and 10:30 A.M. SATURDAY MASS - 7:00 P.M. CONFESSIONS - 6:15-7:15 & after evening Mass on Sat. COMMUNITY CHURCH - Rev. Brian Bigelow GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE - 7:30 P.M. EASTER SUNDAY SERVICE -11:15 AM. HOLY COMMUNION CHURCH SCHOOL -Grades 5-8 - 9:30 A M. - Preschool to Grade 4 - 11:15 A.M. - Care for Babies TERRACE BAY GOSPEL ASSEMBLY - Pastors John Laan y ; : - .. Dave Laakso Services are held in the Public School Auditorium FAMILY HOUR -10:00 A.M SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE -7:00 P.M. SCHREIBER HOLY ANGELS CHURCH - Rev. F. Meyer DAILY MASS Monday, Wednesday, Friday - 5:00 P.M. Tuesday, and Thursday .=T30PM, Saturday 9:00 A.M. &7:15 P.M, SUNDAY SERVICE -9:30 and'11:00A .M. CONFESSIONS - Saturday - 4:15-5:15 P.M. ; before Saturday geenin Mass; before Sunday moming Mass and before all aily Masses. ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH - Rev. Bigelow REGULAR SERVICE - 9:45 A.M, SUNDAY SCHOOL - 10:00 A.M. ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH MORNING PRAYER - 1st & 5th Sundays - 11:00 A.M. HOLY COMMUNION - 2nd Sunday - 7:00. P.M. SACRAMENT OF HEALING - 4th Sunday -=7:00 P.M, HOLY COMMUNION - Every Thursday - 9:30 AM, GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH - Rev. R. Dye MID WEEK SERVICE - 7:00 P.M, Wednesday SUNDAY SCHOOL - 10:00 AM, WORSHIP SERVICE -11:00 A.M. EVENING PRAYER -7:00 P.M, ROSSPORT ST. BERCHMAN'S CHURCH SUNDAY MASS -1:00 P.M. 2 TERRACE BAY NEWS PUBLISHERS FRANCIS & DEBORAH HELMINK PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY at the News Print~ ing Plant, Post Office Building, Terraee Bay OFFICE HOURS - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MON. - FRI. MAILING ADDRESS --- Box 579 PHONE 825-3747 DEADLINE - for all advertisements and news material is NOON MONDAY of each week. "SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year (local) $6.00 per year (out-of-town) Second class mail Registration Number 0867. LETTER TO THE EDITOR: THE MCCAUSLAND HOSPITAL REBUTTAL AND OPINION Over the past weeks we have had spread be- fore us on the pages of the Terrace Bay News voluminous messages regarding conflict and in- trigue at the McCausland Hospital. The latest letter posed some questions that may simply have been rhetorical in nature, but neverthe- less, must now be answered. ¢ Since most of Althea Graham's questions directly or indirectly involve the new labora- tory services offered by the hospital, it is a shame that she had such trouble finding the answers, when the Director of the Laboratory was available to answer her inquiries. " FIRST QUESTION: "When and why did it become necessary that our hospital obtain a lab lic- ense and therefore employ a Registered Technol -ogist?" To answer the second part first, it was October 8, 1975. Indeed prior to this date essential laboratory examinations were done for the hospital by the Doctor's office labor- atory and the Doctor's were reimbursed by the hospital for providing this service. This was obviously an unsatisfactory arrangement from several vantage points: 1/ Although physicians may operate office labs to do tests which are considered part and pars cel of a complete medical examination, it is clearly considered professional conflict of interest for a physician to operate a labora- tory to which he refers patients for tests and for which tests he is paid. This legal con- sideration alone rules out the return to the old system, as advocated by Althea. 2/ The lab work that was performed by manual' methods in the x-ray dark room was certainly subject to errors of several standard devia- tions, but these errors were not usually de- tected because controls were never done. In simple terms, this means the tests were of the crudest possible sort and completely unaccept- able in this day and age when modern technig- ues are available that make diagnosis and treatment surer, faster and safer. For these reasons the physicians notified the hospital that they would no longer be willing to pro- vide this questionable service. This clearly placed the responsibility for providing the essential laboratory facility where it belong- ed - with the hospital board. In Ontario, it is required that any hos- pital laboratory facility be licensed and this means that it must measure up to modern stand- ards of accuracy and reliability. Continued page 3....cccececsees 3