LONDON (AP) — Sep-
arate studies in the U.8. and
to

anyone to stop taking the pill
she's

women who take birth con-
trol pills seem to have a

76-per-cent greater risk of disease

levels for at least five years

are four times more likely to .

develop breast cancer than
other women.

Both studies were publish-
ed in The Lancet, the British
medical magazine, which said
in an ‘editorial

Southern California on 814
cancer patients.
Their case histories were

the new research should not

d with those of 314
healthy women in Los Ap-
geles County of the same

ages and social background .

for a 10-year period.
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The researchers said they
found’ significant link be-
tween breast cancer in young
women and contraceptive
pills ‘containing high levels of

Doctors detail

medicare abusele

OTTAWA (CP) —

‘Thirty examples were
drafted on a ‘questionnaire,
and a random sample of On-
tario family ‘doctors -was

. chosen. The’ doctors. were.

asked to say whether each

example represented an un-

use of medical

.she' wants to see the doctor
right away.

‘A man who had the flu a
week earlier arrives at the
doctor's office. He says he
feels fine, but he needs a note
saying he's fit for work.

A woman takes her elderly
mother to the doctor because.
of a stomach problem and in-
sists on having her admitted
to hospital for testa. The doc-
tor quickly learns the woman
is going out of town and
needs to have her’ mother
taken care of while she's
away.

What all four of these’

hypothetical cases have in
common is that most doctors’
consider them unwarranted
use of their services:, or
abuses of medicare. -

Survey after’ survey ‘has
found a large portion of Can-

are concerned about .

abuse of the system. In‘sur-
veys done for the federal
Health Department earlier
this year, seven of every 10
people asked agreed with the
statement that many people
abuse medicare.

little h

* The results were published

in the latest issue of the Can- |
adian

Medical Association
Journal. '

from 590 doe-

tors showed a wide range of

ideas about what does or

doesn't abuse. In

on,” said: Sir eles
Britain’ 4

noe
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Trall 368-3123 - Nelson 352-3757
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Only about eight to 15 per
cent of sexually-active | teen-

general, doctors seemed
most upset about patients
who missed appointments

In the case of the woman
who really. wanted a hospital
to “babysit”
mother, 77 per cent said the
request was unwarranted.
Eleven per. cent er gee
and the

eat sald t was nara toast

cide.”

‘One case was'a mother
who brought her 18-year-old
daughter to the doctor with a
pimple on her face for the
first time and asked for a re-
ferral to a dermat

_ On the other hand, only 35 -

per cent had a similar view of
a 26-year-old woman who
went to the doctor fora sun-
burn she got the first holiday.

has been done to define ex-
actly what people mean by
abuse.

To help correct this and
also to look at the problem
from the doctor’s point of

» experts at McMaster

University medical school in”

Hamilton, Ont., asked doc-
tors to come up with some
typical cases of abuse.

of the summer.

And only 18 per cent com- «

plained about: a:woman who
went to ‘the doctor because
she thought she felt her heart
skip ‘a beat. The question-
naire explained that~ the
woman had received some
literature from:a heart asso-
ciation’ and thought she
might be experiencing early
heart problems. -

residents

com;

other information ess

‘The Society of
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GRADUATES

The Society of Management Accountants of
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Frederick

F. Fomi

John William Lebidoft, R.L.A.
the professional designation R.
pletion of the prescribed course of
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Each R.A. is a specialist trained to develop,
select, analyze and Liter prat quantitative and
en!

planning, controlling, reporting and manage-
ment o! information and other assets, oe

upon re recat

ial to knowledgeable

her elderly .

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