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Wednesday, July 22, 1998 COMMUNITY

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“Daaad, I've got to go...00...00.” a urine. Finally, in the 17th century, an Oxford physician named B.L. Ricard R.D. E.M. Ciausen R.D.
rut a stranglehold on it son, vel be there shortly.” ... Willis discovered the sugary taste of diabetic urine. “Prompt Professional Denture Service.”
“Daaaad, I mean right here! right now!!”” _> “Hey, guys ... over here ... taste this.” |
=. “OK! Here, ri this empty Mountain Dew bottle,” says I, reach- “Yummmm, Willi, what is it, Mountain Dew?” i DENTURES CONSTRUCTED
ing into the back seat and handing Junior a male-compatible-blad- This was not a good day for the medical profession as itnowin- ff » . Fy
der-relief-recyclable bottle. A few sighs and one bitter complaint ; troduced urine fasting into the everyday life of a doctor. Many left E RELINES SAM pote _REPAINS ney A HURRY! i
(coinciding with hitting a pothole) later, this now. ; ‘the profession and became hangmen. Medical pa eee ving S-OHe

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_“So young Westminster, you wish to be a
physician. ‘Are you, sir, prepared to stamp out dis-
ease, ease the biirden of the ill and... oh ... I

“dunno ... well, do you like breath mints?” .

‘ Afew years later it had been noted that a dog,
whose pancreas had been removed, ran about
 piddling constantly. It was then recognized that
Something in the pancreas could offset the
‘dreaded and invariably fatal diabetes.

Enter Dr. Frederick Banting of Toronto and
“his medical student, Charles Best. Now I don't
so much mind Banting; but it’s the medical
student part that bothers most MDs today. -

In: modern times, .the only difference be-
ween a med student and dog doodoo is that ° be “|
you don’t deliberately’ step on dog F Poop. Few - ee child ‘maintenance guideline?’ ot

~ of us won Nobel Prizes. ‘Make an appointment to'see —

... But apparently in 1921, this young fellow ae ae Sandra Jenko. me for answers to these and .
helped. Banting discover insulin in the pancreas. They quickly ex- ; ur other-le:

“tracted some, injected it into’some diabetics-and the effect was
* nothing short of miraculous. The world rejoiced and both shared
‘ the-Nobel. Prize. Dogs got to keep their pancreases and ants re
sorted to moving rubber trees... - 2
“AS for Canadian medi ne, we can now return. our focus to he:

perfectly venomous bottle is sealed up with acap-
and placed gingerly beside the seat.

All is well and forgotten until number one
teenage daughter is picked up and within sec-_
onds of hopping into the car, cracks open the
Mountain Dew and much to our horror... on
the hatch.

To this day, number one daughter not only re

_ flexively gags and retches each time she sees a *
Mountain Dew ad, but until recent therapy, she. |
hasn't bought any drink without first making th the
clerk drink half of it. =~

‘Now I realize that everyone has their own
family urine-mistaken- for-soda story, but I
bring this one up to illustrate the everyday oc-
currences of a..turn-ofthe-century doctor. -

-Should a patient present to the doctor with

_ symptoms consistent with diabetes; the only’
- way a physician could test for the: disease was:

to actually taste the sweetness ‘of the urine." es

“While you may feel doctors are ‘fortunate that they don not Have

= to taste urine today, keep in mind there v was. no NDPi in ithe © 1800s,
* and given the choice ..

1. “How 1 much basic child main-
tenance would you receive (or.
-have to. pay) under the new - ;
-|--. “child maintenance guidelines? - i
| 2. What additional child care.
.. expenses can be claimed? a
3.:How do you obtain a variation © |
of an existing child main-
, tenance order. under the new ;

= who Long seo, very eo and urinated st as and flies would con-
gregate about the patient’ surine. -

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