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October 24th, 2002, over 80 friends, faculty and family met at the oVogue Hotel to honour Drs.Jonathan L. Meakins and Jacqueline McClaran at a testimonial banquet as they are moving to Oxford, England with new appointments on November 20th. Jonathan has been appointed the Nuffield Jonathan Meakins Professor of Surgery and Head of the Nuffield De- partment of Surgery at Oxford and he will be affil- Moving to Oxford iated with Balliol College. Jacqueline McClaran will be Assistant Medical Director at the John Radcliffe Hospital's Trust and she will be employed at the University of Oxford with an educational role in the Dean's office and the Department of Primary Care (Family Medicine). They in- tend to be on-site at Oxford by December 1st. Speakers at the dinner who bid farewell to them were Drs. E.D. Monaghan, Nicolas V. Christou, Lloyd D. Maclean, Dean Abraham Fuks, Gerald Fried, Mostafa Elhilali, and Ms. Celine Doray, R.N. A presentation was made of a photograph of Dr. Meakins done by Montreal's laszlo which will be posted in the 10th Floor Archibald Amphitheatre along with those of Drs. Ed- ward Archibald and Lloyd D. Maclean. Dr.Jonathan Meakins Jonathan L. Meakins qualified MD at the University of West- ern Ontario in 1966, DSc (Cincinnati) in 1972 in Surgical In- fection and Immunology with Drs. Wes Alexander and W.A. Altemeier, and obtained his FRCS(Canada) in 1973 and FACSin 1976. He completed his postgraduate training at the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University in 1974 and was appointed ~ DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY (please see Meakins, pg. 4) .............................................................................. NEWSLETTER -::::::I Letters to The Editor 1 Mount Club 13 McGILL UNIVERSITY ~. Editorial 3 Kudos 14 a. Jonathan Meakins' Farewell Dinner 4 Achievements Residentsand Fellows 16 FALL 2002 ID New Director of ProfessionalServices 7~inir1lallyln~asiveSurgery~rograr1l(~ISP)m 17 Dr.Max Aebi to Switzerland 8 AnthonyRSDo~~IIVisitingProfessor 18 Welcome Aboard 8 MISPVisitinq Professor 19 Npw (hipf nHNT 8 19 Mr('ill O;v;,;on of <;"ro;,,1 R~search 9 20 hlvpnilp ni~hptp< Ihu;:p;:nrh roundation 9 20 Welcoming The New R-l's 10 Ambassador'sClub 21 ......................................................... Volunteering in Hospitals 12 Events .......................................................... 21 THE SQUARE ""z ....C> 2 Dear Editor: published by Lippincott Williams and Lawrence in a Flying Dutchman; Herman I am writing to you all after a long ab- Wilkins, and edited by myself and Dr. in a Jollyboat, and 18' sailboat designed sence, but I have been reading The Square William B. Inabnet from the Mount Sinai by Uffa Fox, which had the reputation to Knot diligently and enjoying it. I have School of Medicine, New York. The book be the fastest planing monohull at that also seen a number of the McGill staff has 33 chapters in this field devoted to time; and I, an International 14 at Pointe during different College meetings new techniques of thyroid, parathyroid, Claire. We occasionally raced each other's throughout the years. When I saw the is- thymus, adrenal and pancreatic surgery. boats and whenever there was a major sues of Winter Sixty contributors from around the world regatta and when we had the "time-off': 2002 with Dr. have written this book, which is the first we would race on Lac St. Louis. Two years ? Letters Sarkis Meterissian on this subject. This textbook includes ago, I spent a week's vacation in New to The Editor and Dr. Judith over 200 color illustrations and 306 pages, Brunswick to see some old family friends, Trudel mentioned and has been registered at the Library of namely Dorothy Mcintosh Waterston, the and the Summer Congress. We have donated a copy to the daughter of Dr. John F. Mcintosh, an in- 2002 issue with the picture on page 9 of McGill Library for the benefits of your ternist and research at the RVH and niece all the residents and friends present in medical residents, students, and fellows. CA. (Sandy) Mcintosh who spends the 1985, I decided to write. At the same time, I would like to thank summer at Westfield, N.B. near St. John, you for the photographs of the Royal Vic- N.B. I tried to get in touch with Herm, How are you, your family and all the staff toria Hospital in 1985, which were pub- whom I believe still enjoys sailing and my and friends? Regards to all. My wife Lina lished in the summer 2002 issue of The fellow RVH resident, Bob Dionne, who and I have a family of four, 3 daughters Square Knot. I have to tell you that I have had retired from his orthopaedic practice. (Meyce, Lara, Samar) and a son (Hamdi). never received a copy of the photograph We are living in Saudi Arabia and I am when this was taken and if you can find I also have some news of 3 former Vic res- working in ARAMCOas a surgeon and as in the archive a copy of the negative or idents who some may still have some rec- the Director of the Clinical Medicine De- any of the large color photographs, I ollection of: partment. As you may remember, I did would like to have one for my record. my residency in General Surgery from I hope everything is well at McGill. Jack Handelsman, was the 1st Accident 1986 to 1991. Life and work here is very Service Fellow, 1971-72. He came from good and we are very excited that our I wish you much luck with the new Birmingham Accident Hospital. He helped eldest, Meyce, has joined McGill Univer- hospital. Dr. Moseley organize the Accident Ser- sity School of Nutrition at the McDonald Michel Gagner, M.D. vice. Later on, he returned to South Africa Campus this September. Chief, Laparoscopic Surgery, and practised. However, as the political cli- TheMount Sinai Medical Center, New York mate changed, he came to USAand was a I hope to continue to correspond and Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics at please send our regards to all SUNY on Long Island. He is still a very ac- Ali Alaudin, M.D. Dear Editor: tive pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, pub- Saudi Arabia I read the Summer 2002 issue of The lished widely and frequently presents Square Knot with a lot of interest. I was papers at sub-specialty meetings. Editor's Note: When Ali was here, the very sad to learn that Drs. David Lin Department of Surgery organized an In- and Doug Ackman had passed away. Karel van de Putte followed Jack Han- ter-Hospital Tennis Tournament. The RVH During the time I was on the surgical dlesman and served for one year on the contingent included Ali who was then house staff at the Royal Vic, 1961-64, Accident Service. He was Flemish, came tennis champion of Saudi Arabia and David Lin was one of my teachers. He from Vienna, Austria where he had taken Coleman Bonny, the tennis professional at distinguished himself by bringing in training with Bohler and when we ro- the Montreal Indoor Tennis Club. Some of cases from his community practice. He tated on that service, we were making the hospitals thought this unfair. But the also allowed the residents to do a mean- skin-tight casts for acute fractures. Karel MCH won! ingful part of the surgery and gave ex- also distinguished himself by taking care cellent follow-up care. I really enjoyed of a spinal injured RVH house officer in Dear Editor: his teaching and his friendship. such an exemplary way that I believe she I would like to let you know that we re- recovered fully. After leaving Canada, he cently published a book entitled Mini- Doug Ackman, Herman Sullivan and I went to Los Angeles and was persuaded mally Invasive Endocrine Surgery sailed dinghies. Doug at Royal St. to return to his native Antwerp ~ (please see Letters, pg. 9) THE SQUARE ""z ~ 3 four years in a designated area. If they failed to comply, there would be fines of up to $50,000 per year and lossof their license. Recently, the government passed Bill 114, a controversial law, 000 NEWS FROM QUEBE(- which allows the government to force doctors to work in out- GQUEBEC DROPS PENALTIES FOR URBAN MD's lying Emergency Rooms. Ever since the 1980's, the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Quebec has tried to recruit medical doctors to work in the The whole process has caused such a hue and cry by young outlying regions. With each successive yearly doctors, the public and the press,that Health Minister Fran~ois Editorial "decret'; various rules and regulations have Legault has promised to eliminate these repressive rules. been promulgated to achieve this end. In These include all those dating all the way back to "decrets" in 1988, when the Internships were abolished, and when two the 1980's which stipulated that General Practitioners in their streams were established for Postgraduate Training (Family first three years of practice were to be docked 30% of their Medicine or Specialty), the "decret" allocated sufficient num- revenue if they worked in an urban center like Montreal in- bers of Postgraduate Residency positions for the entire stead of in outlying areas. province. But we live in a very large province with 19 Health Regions. The focus was to provide incentives to work in pe- At present, there is a shortage of about 1,000 physicians in ripheral regions. These latter were rather poorly defined even Quebec. An estimated 5,000 foreign trained doctors have im- by the Regional Councils, and so, when it became known that migrated to Canada.
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