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Overcoming Disability: Kamal Haffar, with patient Peggy Kinsey at Grace Hospital in Scarborough, is a blind physiotherapist.
Overcoming Disability: Kamal Haffar, with patient Peggy Kinsey at Grace Hospital in Scarborough, is a blind physiotherapist.

Overcoming Disability: Kamal Haffar, with patient Peggy Kinsey at Grace Hospital in Scarborough, is a blind physiotherapist.

Date9/14/1988
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Consul general of India, Pran Soni and his wife Kamal are hosts at the Indian Encounter Festival ending tonight at Harbourfront.
Consul general of India, Pran Soni and his wife Kamal are hosts at the Indian Encounter Festival ending tonight at Harbourfront.
10/28/1980
Contributed service: Major Harold Thornhill, executive director of Scarborough Grace General Hospital, accepts lower pay so the Army can stretch its donated funds
Contributed service: Major Harold Thornhill, executive director of Scarborough Grace General Hospital, accepts lower pay so the Army can stretch its donated funds
4/27/1988
Learned volunteer: Retired U of T professor Stephen Sim, 70, shown with co-worker Pauline Santora, is very active as a volunteer in the pharmacy department at Grace Hospital in Scarborough, whre he plays a support role for 10 of his former students
Learned volunteer: Retired U of T professor Stephen Sim, 70, shown with co-worker Pauline Santora, is very active as a volunteer in the pharmacy department at Grace Hospital in Scarborough, whre he plays a support role for 10 of his former students
12/7/1987
Space-age x-ray: Dr. James Dickie, head of radiology at Scarborough General Hospital, studies an X-ray as the hospital's new Angicon unit scans a patient's blood vessels. The unit could save the lives of many Metro seniors.
Space-age x-ray: Dr. James Dickie, head of radiology at Scarborough General Hospital, studies an X-ray as the hospital's new Angicon unit scans a patient's blood vessels. The unit could save the lives of many Metro seniors.
12/14/1982
Confronting death: Scarborough Centenary Hospital's palliative care team, formed to help dying patients and their families, includes, from the left, Dr. David Seager, social worker Angela Al-Hillal, nurse Lin Rousseaux, Dr. Joan Jeu and chaplain Thomas Davies.
Confronting death: Scarborough Centenary Hospital's palliative care team, formed to help dying patients and their families, includes, from the left, Dr. David Seager, social worker Angela Al-Hillal, nurse Lin Rousseaux, Dr. Joan Jeu and chaplain Thomas Davies.
4/3/1989
New lab: Dr. John Shea, radiology director at Centenary, displays the new equipment. The lab will save Scarborough patients from travelling to hospitals in other parts of Metro.
New lab: Dr. John Shea, radiology director at Centenary, displays the new equipment. The lab will save Scarborough patients from travelling to hospitals in other parts of Metro.
10/15/1987
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]
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]
11/24/1986
Paralyzed by an automobile accident, lawyer Ronald McInns shows the book he has written on tenants' rights to his physiotherapist, Betty Brooks
Paralyzed by an automobile accident, lawyer Ronald McInns shows the book he has written on tenants' rights to his physiotherapist, Betty Brooks
1/9/1973
Blind: David and Marjorie Inglis, who are legally blind and living in a Metro Housing Authority development in Scarborough, say people with disabilities can live well in subsidized housing
Blind: David and Marjorie Inglis, who are legally blind and living in a Metro Housing Authority development in Scarborough, say people with disabilities can live well in subsidized housing
3/4/1986
House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
House of fear: The St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital houses patients judged not guilty of violent crimes by reason of insanity. Hospital administrator Bob Cunningham, inset, is striving to quiet fears of residents opposed to the release of patients into the community.
7/16/1988
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
Robert Stephens cosults with a patient in his office. During one weekend, Dr. Stephens talked by phone with 40 patients, was six in his office, visited eight at home and three in hospital, all at about a $3 hourly rate. Not rapacious for overtime work, he says.
1/16/1973
On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
4/27/1982