NEWS LETTER I. Dr. Roy Schofer and Dr. P. A. Debenharn hav9 joined the Anaesthetic Staf~ 9 f the Vancouver General Hospital.

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1 NEWS LETTER BRTSH COLU~BA DVSON Dr. Roy Schofer and Dr. P. A. Debenharn hav9 joined the Anaesthetic Staf~ 9 f the Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Guy Screech has been appointed anaesthetist frith the Canadian Medical Team which left for Malayd in October for a two-yegr stay under the Colombo Plan. The British Columbia Division held its final scienti!fic program for the year Jn April, the Guest Speaker being Dr. T. McCaughey, Director of Anaesthesia at tt~e Winnipeg Children's Hospital. Dr. McCaughey presented an excellent paper on Pulmonary Problems in Paediatric Anaesthesia9 Dr. Hugh Macartney has recently returned from ~ visit to Britain where h e presented a paper at the three day convention on Dental Anaesthesia held at the Eastman Dental nstitute in London. ---n Twenty physicians are registered in the Universit~ of British Columbia Post Graduate Course in Anaesthesia. New registrants inthe course are as follows: Dr. R. E. Creighton, graduated from University of Torontlo, nterned at the Toronto East General Hospital and has just completed a )ear of nternal Medici~ae at Shaughnessy Veterans' Hospital, Vancouver. Dr. John A. McConnell, graduate of University of Western Ontario,~ nterned at The Vancouver General Hospital. Completed a year of General Surgery, The Vancouver General Hospital and for the past sik years has been practicing in Duncan, Vancouver sland, B.C. Dr. George S. Penx~ose, graduate of McGill Univlersity, nterned in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Completed a year of nternal Medicine at the UniversRy of Alberta Hospital and for the past six years has be~n practicing in Medicine Hat, Alberta. " / Dr. Robert R. Urquhart, graduate of University of British'Columbia, 1960 and completed his Junior nterneship at the Queen's Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Janet Halley, graduate o of Liverpool University, nterned at ~he Vancouver General Hospital. o Dr. W. K. Maxwell, graduate of McGill University, Junior nterneship at the Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Peter Klassen, graduate of ~e University of Toronto, nterned at H~ly Cross Hospital, Calgary, and for the past six years has been practising at Stet~er, Mberta. 9 9 i 9 9 Dr. E. J. Treloar, graduate of the Umversztyoof British Columbia, nterned at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver and has been practising in KarMoops,, B.C. for ~lae past five years. Dr. Peter Tannen has been awarded the Burroughs-Wellcome and Poulenc Fellowship in lbasic Sciences at the University of British" Columbia. 619

2 620 CANADAN an~s~tsffs' SOCma~i jovm~al Dr. William Brummitt has been awarde d th~ British Columbia Heart Founda. tion Scholarship in Cardiology at the UniVersil~ of British Columbia. i Dr. Eric Webb was a Guest Speaker at the ~merican Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, Ca[iforn[ia.... Dr. vor Williams is completing a year l of l~aediatric Anaesthesia at ~he Uni. versity of Liverpool, Liverpool, England. SASKATCHEWA~q DVSON Dr. Geoffrey Ryan has completed a yqar of residency in Anaesthesia at the University Hospital, Saskatoon, and is now/in practice with the Asoeiated Anaesthetists of Regina. Dr. Eric Asquith of Regina has moved intb a-larger office suite in.the new wing of'the "~cal and Dental Building. H e has installed comple~dental equipment for the use of dentists who require[li, general anaesthesia for their patients. Dr. A. R. Boutros has been promoted from Jnstructor to Associate Professor of Anaesthesia in the Universi~ of Saskatehewa~, effective July 1, Dr. E. T. Cockings, having completed hi~ training in the Departments of Anaesthesia and Medicine at the University Hospital, Saskatoon, has been appointed nstructor in the Department of J Anaesthesia at the Univ~ersity of Saskatchewan, effective July 1, Dr. COckings has been appointgd to the full-time staff at the University Hospital. / ONTARO DVSON Dr. W. E. Spoerel, Head of the Department of Anaesflaesia, University of Western Ontario, was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor on July 1, Dr. Lewis W. Hersey has returned to London, Ontario, from VancQuver, and has been appointed as a Fellow in Ana6sthesia at the University of Westerh Ontario. The new Canadian Forces Medical Centre,in Ottawa was officially 9Pened on October 11, 1961, and is affiliated with the ~niversity of Ottawa as.a teaching hospital. Col. N. H. McNally is Anaesthetist-in-CJhief. Dr. D. A. Pelton, from the Postgraduate Course in Anaesthesia, University ~ of Toronto, is a McLaughlin Travelling FelJo~v for the session , and is

3 NEWS,F,~ 621 presently at the Research Department of Anaestlieticsl Royal College of Surgeons of England. Dr. Claude Pouliot of Laval University a~d McLaughlin Travelling Fellow for , alad Hospital, London, England. University of Toronto is!a i~ presently at Westminster Dr. Mary E. Hunter of the Postgraduate Co~arse in Anaesthesia of the U~iversity of Toronto is spending a year at the Middlesexl Hospital, London, England. QUEBEC DVSON Dr. Leroy D. Vandam, Directory of Anesthesiology at the Peter Bent Brigh~tm Hospital, Boston, represented the specialty of anaesthesia when he presente d a paper on "atrogenic Hazards in Anaesthesia" befqre a general session of flae Canadian Medical Association's annual convention in Montreal on June 22nd. Anaesthetists throughout Canada may be well assu~ed that Dr. Vandam s v~slt will have done much to demonstrate how widely the interests and responsibilities of the physician anaesthetist now reach. Dr. Robert R. Boright has joined Drs. Robert Ferguson, J. J. Kelly and Associates in their practice at the Montreal General Hospital. Dr. Boright is a 1944 graduate in Medicine from McGill, and was formerly in general practice. He is certified in Anaesthesia by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec and The Royal College of Physicians and gurgeons of Canada. The Standing Committee on Economics of the Quebec Division has been active in seeking the establishment of an independent i~rocedural tariff for the p oro - fessional fees of anaesthetists in the Province. A~ the'time of writing active negotiations are being conducted with a yiew to early amendment of the bjasis of the original tariff. The Committee's submission has been that the modern anaesthetic procedure basically includes not only the administration of (and continuous supervi~_ion during) an anaesthetic, by any tecl~nique, but also a pre-anaesthetic consultation, supportive therapy during the operation, and professional care in the immediate post-operative (recovery room) phase. With this in mind the Committee has cofne to the realization that the.t~aditional hourly basis for the fees of anaesthetists is no longer suitable, nor l~any tariff which seeks to fix the value of the anaesthe!tist's services in an unchanging ratio to a schedule of allowances for surgical operations. t is suggested that only a tariff of an indeper~dent procedural type rejects sufficiently accurately the value of the 'anaesthetist's professional services, having in mind the nature of the anaesthetic procedure as ano ~independent medical] act.

4 622 CANADAN ANAESTHETSTS' SbCETY JOURNAL Le docteur Paul Perron finit un stage d'6~de d'un an a Los Angel~s oh il a travaill6 sous la direction du docfeur Digby Leig]h. 1 reviendra tt l'h~tel-dieu de Montr6al. L 9 t 9 9 J A 9 l! o e docteur Jules Lupm resident a 1 H6tel-~leu de Montreal passera a prochaine ann6e au Washington Hospital Center, ~t Washington~D.C. dans le service du docteur Weston Bruner. 12 dolt egaler~ent [travailler sur les volumes sanguins sous la direction du docteur Solomon Albert. Le docteur Guy Fortin, notre secr6tair~ tr6~orier provincial, prendra un repos de sant6 de quelques semaines. Nous lui souh~itons un pr6mpt r6tablis~ement. :l F t t (~ ~ l 9 9 * }:~ X t' A 1 assemblee generale de la Canadmn Medical Assocmhon tenue a Montreal le 22 juin dernier le docteur Leroy D. Vandam du Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 9 9 *, l * 9 f t,1 " t a Boston a fret honneur a la specmlite pay la i~resentahon de son travail compre, hensff "atroge'nie~azards in Anaesthesia.'" Le comit6 6conomique permanent de la pro ~ Ance de Qu6bec a fait de nouvelles repr6sentations pour 6tablir une 6chelle d'hon, ~raires ind6pendants des honoraires ehirurgieaux, selon es soins sp6eialis6s admi~ istr6s. Le eomit6 a soulign6 le fait que l'aete anesth6sique ne eomprend pas seul, ~ment l'administration de l'anesth6- sic elle-mdme et la surveillance assidue du malade au tours de cell e-ci mais P! 6galement une consultation pr6-op6ratoire avee 6valuation du risque presente, une th6rapie de remplacement, de support 9r6-op6ratoire, ainsi que des soins post-sp6cifiques particuli6rement ~ la salle de r6veil. Avec eeci tt ['esprit le eomit6 est d'avis que les honoraires sur tree ase honoraire n'est plus cceptable non plus qu'un pourcentage fix6 des honorair es ehirurgieaux. En conclusion le co,mit6 sugg6re qu'une ~che]e d'honoraires soit 6tablie en rapport avec le type d anesthesie administree et qui tienne compte d~s services professionnels anesth6siques administres, en regari] avec la nature de llacte pos6 entant que acte m6dical sp6cialis6 indtpen6ant. NOVA SCOTA DMsloN The annual General Practitioner's Refresher Course in Anaesthesia, Sponsored by the Post-Graduate Division of Dalhousie Medical School, was hold at the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, N.S., fro m September 25 to September 80, Dr. Barrie Fairley of the University of Toronto was guest spealder on this occasion. A special committee of the Nova Scotia Medical Society has been undertaking a study of the health needs of the province, and, at their request, the NOva Scotia

5 NEWS t,~vrf_~ 628 Division prepared a brief on the present anaesthetic services existing in the province. The brief included a few suggestions on how tho un-met medical needs in anaesthesia could best be filled. The regular meetings of the Nova Scotia Divisiop respmed in September and it is expected that a full and interesting programme Will be presented in the present season.