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They're a team: Peter Straetmans, blind for seven years has lodged a complaint against a doctor at Sunnybrook Medical Centre who won't allow his guide dog Jocko into the kidney dialysis room
They're a team: Peter Straetmans, blind for seven years has lodged a complaint against a doctor at Sunnybrook Medical Centre who won't allow his guide dog Jocko into the kidney dialysis room

They're a team: Peter Straetmans, blind for seven years has lodged a complaint against a doctor at Sunnybrook Medical Centre who won't allow his guide dog Jocko into the kidney dialysis room

Date11/9/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: They're a team: Peter Straetmans; blind for seven years has lodged a complaint against a doctor at Sunnybrook Medical Centre who won't allow his guide dog Jocko into the kidney dialysis room.
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Kidney specialist Dr. Paul Tam vowed to bring a $1 million kidney dialysis unit to Scarborough after Gary Belz died of a heart attack due to kidney failure more than two years ago. Tam said if Belz, then 37, hadn't had to wait a month for dialysis treatment at a downtown hospital, he would still be alive today. And Tam said the dozens of patients who travel downtown for dialysis would have a much, much better quality of life if a unit were Scaborough. But after [Incomplete]
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