SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Development of blood transfusion service in B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-10 SUMMARY: Dr. T.D. Stout, Director of Blood Transfusion Services for the Red Cross in BC, discusses: personal background; intern at VGH in 1949; graduated University of Manitoba in 1950; director of the Red Cross blood transfusion service in 1955; history of the transfusion service since 1947; previous situation; cost to run and financing arrangements; clinic arrangements; staff; scheduling; equipment and collection; testing of blood; specimen tubes, and a description of storage and life of blood; distribution; labeling; use of multiple bags and the different components of blood; changes to bags in 1967; why; increased tests; 1970 autoanalyser; hepatitis B test; sophistications; loss of blood; daily storage requirements; unusual blood groups; cost of unit; supply district; assessment of service, standards and the value of volunteers and donors.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: First hour of show only. Last half hour not recorded. Guy Simonis, General Manager of the Western Canada Lottery Foundation, talks about the lottery.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster goes out to visit Mount Pleasant Health Centre’s Medical Clinic—BC’s first salaried doctor’s clinic—to investigate this model aimed at reducing skyrocketing medical costs facing the Social Credit government. Albert Burke and Fred Coates of PSAC Agricultural Unit reveal that federal meat inspection is at risk because of government changes to the responsibilities of meat inspectors. Gerald Green, a lawyer with Vancouver Community Legal Assistance Society, speaks about involuntarily committed mentally ill patients being forced to pay a daily charge.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Dr. Dale Loewen and his wife Angie of Williams Lake, claim that the Cariboo Health Unit’s denial of hospital privileges to Dr. Loewen (on the grounds that his anti-abortion statements and affiliations were disruptive) was discriminatory. Bob Naismyth, a Carolin Mines employee, discusses the company’s failure to pay their employees, and their expectation that employees continue to work without pay or face termination. Orville Gillespie, president of Carolin Mines, states that Carolin Mines is in the process of acquiring new financing, and employees will eventually be reimbursed. Dan Sewell of Sewell’s Marina, and Rolf Paterson, Daiwa Canada president, discuss the proposed US/Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty and its effect on B.C.’s sport fishing industry.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Tom Siddon, Minister of Fisheries, defends policies that are criticized by the public and an Auditor General’s report. A court decision to deny doctors a billing number required to practice under the Medical Services Plan is the subject of discussion by a panel including Dr. Robert Conn, Dr. David Mathews, and Dr. Christyanne Maxson.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Peter Dueck, the Minister of Health, addresses the issue of billing numbers which are required by doctors to practice under the Medical Services Program. This is a follow-up on the same subject discussed on episode AAAA7807. Ken Georgetti, newly-elected President of the BC Federation of Labour, discusses changes he'd like to see.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with Dr. John O’Brien-Bell, President of the BC Medical Association and a discussion of billing numbers, a two-tiered medical scheme, the increase in women in medical school, and Bill Vander Zalm’s anti-abortion interference in legal abortions. Jack then speaks with Mike Harcourt, who has declared his candidacy for the NDP leadership. Then, Jack goes to the Vancouver Aquarium and speaks with Dr. Murray Newman, Director.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with Darlene Marzari, NDP MLA Vancouver-Point Grey, and Joan Smallwood, NDP MLA Surrey-Guildford-Whalley. They are horrified by Claude Richmond’s latest threat to remove children from parents, if parents receiving welfare benefits do not take jobs. They discuss Social Credit’s track record and their policies. Then a story about cochlear implants with Dr. Patrick Doyle, Head of Otolaryngology, St. Paul’s Hospital and Dr. Dietrich Schwarz, Otolaryngology Research, UBC.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Grace McCarthy, provincial Minister of Economic Development, discusses the fate of the Expo 86 site located on the north shore of False Creek. Dr. Hamilton Hall, orthopedic surgeon and author of "The Back Doctor", talks about how to avoid back injuries and how to cope with back pain.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Native Indian Tuberculosis Control Programme PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; graduation; first interest in tuberculosis; Saskatoon Sanatorium; treatment of tuberculosis then; moving to BC in 1941; opening hospital at Sardis; problems; public attitudes; case-finding facilities; incidence of TB among Indians; Indians attitudes toward the hospital; development of TB control program; public education; opening hospitals at Nanaimo, 1945 and Prince Rupert,1946; treatment, streptomycin. TRACK 2: School for patients; handicrafts; fire at hospital in 1948; relation between federal and provincial TB control; TB Christmas Seals.

SUMMARY: "Concern" was a CBC radio series about "today's world" and the topics that concerned people. It went on the air on Oct. 2, 1969. "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the re;lationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the series, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard discu;ssing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 1 of 3.;

SUMMARY: "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the relationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the serie;s, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard discussing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 1 of 3.;

SUMMARY: "Concern" was a CBC radio series about "today's world" and the topics that concerned people. It went on the air on Oct. 2, 1969. "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the re;lationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the series, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard disc;ussing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 2 of 3.;

SUMMARY: "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the relationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the seri;es, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard discussing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 2 of 3.;

SUMMARY: "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the relationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the seri;es, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard discussing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 3 of 3.;

SUMMARY: "Concern" was a CBC radio series about "today's world" and the topics that concerned people. It went on the air on Oct. 2, 1969. "Your Doctor, Your Health" was a three-part series that explored the re;lationship between physician and patient. The program looks at treatments, traditions and alternatives to tradition. In the series, conservative, progressive and avant-garde physicians are heard disc;ussing their practices, morals and ethics. Program 3 of 3.;