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Playing footsie with patients. Reflexologists claim they can heal by stimulating nerves in feet
Playing footsie with patients. Reflexologists claim they can heal by stimulating nerves in feet

Playing footsie with patients. Reflexologists claim they can heal by stimulating nerves in feet

Date7/12/1983
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
4/9/1992
Downsview podiatrist Hartley Miltchin nows uses the soft laser machine he bought for patients' feet to help clients like Pat Warde change their lifestyle
Downsview podiatrist Hartley Miltchin nows uses the soft laser machine he bought for patients' feet to help clients like Pat Warde change their lifestyle
5/30/1990
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
Tokenism feared: Former psychiatric patients Don Weitz and Carol Stubbs, top photo, worry that patients in institutions won't be told they can vote.
4/26/1985
Nerve-wracking wait: Federico Sanabri Martines says the worst part about waiting for his refugees status claim to be heard is not being allowed to work
Nerve-wracking wait: Federico Sanabri Martines says the worst part about waiting for his refugees status claim to be heard is not being allowed to work
12/6/1988
A Canadian pharmaceutical company has released a non-prescription ointment it says can heal herpes sores in three to four days - but experts are sceptical
A Canadian pharmaceutical company has released a non-prescription ointment it says can heal herpes sores in three to four days - but experts are sceptical
9/21/1983
The biggest thing they need is some place where they can be doing something constructive, a halfway house, hardware store owner Jean Peacock says of the former patients who live near the Queen St
The biggest thing they need is some place where they can be doing something constructive, a halfway house, hardware store owner Jean Peacock says of the former patients who live near the Queen St
5/5/1975
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
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
Prof. Patrick Foley, examining system for stimulating the human eye, says many industrial engineers ignore the human factors in designing.
Prof. Patrick Foley, examining system for stimulating the human eye, says many industrial engineers ignore the human factors in designing.
2/5/1970
Out of commission: It will be at least Christmas before David Spencer is free to halo brace, an appliance screwed into his skull to restrict its movement so bones in his neck will heal
Out of commission: It will be at least Christmas before David Spencer is free to halo brace, an appliance screwed into his skull to restrict its movement so bones in his neck will heal
11/8/1986
It is to Laffer: Arthur Laffer (top left), the economist whose idea on stimulating a flagging economy caught on like wildfire, was once a student of Lorie Tarshis, above, now of Ontario Economic Council
It is to Laffer: Arthur Laffer (top left), the economist whose idea on stimulating a flagging economy caught on like wildfire, was once a student of Lorie Tarshis, above, now of Ontario Economic Council
6/12/1980