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Show poor copys Page 14 Ben Lomond Beacon ,;v .VC IW'J5 Medical center embodies new idea in medicine, emergency care By Mike Brubaker Emergency A North Ogden resident is part owner of a medical center on 447 E. 12th St. which offers a new dimension in health care. The facility, General Medical Center, was bought problems which will require hospitalization should still be referred to a hospital emergency room. of But 70 percent emergencies do not result in hospitilization, Mr. Blood said. In those instances People can be seen here faster and by Steven Blood of North Ogden, Dr. Bruce Taylor, and Craig Mortensen in early January. Since then, they have opened similar centers in Orem and Salt Lake City. Theyve been well accepted by the public, Mr. Blood said. quality with significantly lens medical expense, he stated. We dont provide a gnaat number of doctors here vith great specialities like some of the clinics in town, Mr. Blood admitted. We provide medical medical care 16, July n9W 1980 However, the large size of in a clinic setting is the center places it in a preferable to an emergency unique situation, making it room. It is more satisfying to something between a doctors office and a hospital me, she said. I like to see people back and see how emergency room. they are doing. The facilities are always Another fulltime physician staffed with at least four personnel: a physician, a will be signed in September, Mr. Blood said. y nurse, a lab and We pride ourselves on technician, and a receptionist. keeping the minimum Dr. Maureen Klein, a waiting time down, keeping internal expenses low, and providing in specialist medicine, has been working quality medicine, he said. General Medical Centers at the center as a fulltime doctor for several months. patients will be the final According to her, working judge of that. X-ra- designed for the convenience of the patient. The new centers havfL.the ability to treat minor medical emergencies and they play the part of a family physician as well. We specialize in three areas: continuing family walk-ihealth care, GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER'S Laboratory samples of blood, among other things. n emergency care, and inhe dustrial medicine, stated. Blood outlined the advantages of using General Medical Centers as a family doctor. No appointments are necessary, and the center is open late in the evenings. Mr. By Susan A. Turner Club has North Ogden gone computer under the leadership of Wayne Summers. 4-- H use the center to treat injured employees and to give preemployment physicals. The facilities of the General Medical Centers are also very similar to those of an emergency clinic. These facilities include 11 Streets due for repaving rooms, an room, an emergency care room and a lab. examination y According to Mr. Blood, the rooms are designed to handle any problems that may arise. However, the center is not equipped to DR. MALIRIEEN KLEIN, ci patient's examines Brubaker. General Medical Center of Ogden's fulltime physician, to find out just what the problem is. Photo by Mike keep patients overnight. Schoonie's changes management Schoonies Family Plain City changed hands early this month when the Schoon-makin er family decided to relinquish control of the diner. The new proprietors of the establishment are Mr. and Mrs. Jose Magana, Plain City residents for the past two y'ears. Thr Maganas plan to call their new restaurant Jessys, afte r Mr. Maganas son. T.lie Maganas also run Anitas Restaurant in Pleasant View, named after daughter Anita, age six. The restaurant is presently offering American breakfast, lunch and dinner from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Mr. Magana plans to introduce a menu of Mexican food to Jessys in the next few weeks, according to son Joe. Mr. Magana has more than 14 years of experience in the restaurant business, having previously ran restaurants in Boise and Caldwell, Idaho. Portions of Lomond View Dr. and 3650 N. in Pleasant View will be resurfaced soon. The City Council voted to accept the low bid of Parsons Asphalt Co. for the job at its last meeting, rejecting bids by two other companies. The project will cost a little over $11,000 complete. The contractor will tear out and resurface approximately 6,000 square feet of road at 3650 N. and 800 W. About 8,400 Ultraviolet rays produce Vitamin D in the body. to square feet of pavement will be resurfaced on Lomond View Dr. We are learning Cancer walk features IMourse and Norton The American Cancer Society will join with television personality Kent Norton, the Bonneville High School Pep Band, and Good Company, an en- tertainment group from Weber State College in A Walk With Dick Nourse and Friends Against Cancer July 19 in conjunction with the Pioneer Days Street Festival, Norton, who will represent his friend and Dick Nourse, will arrive at 12:30 p.m. at Lester Park aboard the Channel 5 television helicopter. He and other local er WHO HAS BEEN operating Jessy's Restaurant for his father, smile and a genial remark for customers, no matter how hard a day JOE MAGANA, dignitaries and cancer patients and their families DENTURE WEARERS SIDEWALK SALE .M.V0. iFri. & Sat. A major advancement (K CUSHION GRIP DENTURE ADHESIVE one application holds comfortably up tp 4 days IT PAYS MORE THAN EVER TO BE AVETERAN. LAUNDRY DETERGENT 'jO lbs. ... other benefits. For details, call your Army Representative, in the Yellow Pages under Recruiting! The club doesnt own a but local businesses have helped it overcome that problem. At a computer, recent Cherry Days display, three local companies loaned computers for the club to sue. Club members demonstrated how the computers worked and got a chance to practice what It is used to analyze . . - The beauties of North Fork Canyon and the excitement of an outdoor Shakespearian production will be combined on July 31st and August 1st. The program is being made possible by a special gift from Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Swanson. It will be presented each evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Swanson Environmental The idea of this unique program began when district personnel Super Concentrated! MEET TODAY'S ARMY RESERVE. Cancer 393-111- 0. Weber students to present Romeo and Juliet Center in North Fork under the leadership of Mrs. Joyce McKean, drama director at Weber High School. Weber School District students will present the play Romeo and Juliet. $1500 The American Society is offering and badges to those who donate a specified amount to the ACS during the Walk With Dick Nourse and Friends campaign. For further information or to make a donation, call the American Cancer Society at discussed the possible additional uses of the Environmental Center with Dr. and Mrs. Swanson. The Swanson family made the Environmental Center possible with a series of substantial donations to the Weber District Foundation and the center now bears the Swanson name. Mrs. Swanson, born and raised in England, has a love for special Shakespeares plays, and desires to give students and parents an opportunity to feel her love for his writing. The forty students who are in the participating spend the production week of July 28th at the will Swanson Center. These students will be preparing set decorations, music and rehearsing for the evening production on Thursday, July 31st, and Friday August 1st. Tickets for this program are available by calling the Weber School District Office, Admission is $2 per a family. $5 person, Seating capacity for this outdoor production is limited to 300 per night. 394-887- theyve been learning in the public eye. The computer display looked a little out of place in the midst of all the traditional displays, but, as Mr. Summers pointed out, Many farms now are being run with the help of computers. Farmers of the future will rely heavily on computers. They have been studying computers for about a year now, according to Mr. Summers. We got in- terested in them when the assistant leader took some in classes computer he said. programming, The group is now working hard to prepare a presen- tation for the area Fair. This annual display of all exhibits will be held area August 14 and 15 at Weber High School Auditorium. The displays will be open to the public on August 15. 4-- H 4-- H The club bills itself as the Klub. Komputers Kids It meets once a week and has six members at present. 4-- H Heat exhaustion, sunstroke needs immediate attention SALT LAKE CITY-W- hile summers warmer tem- peratures allow many people to work in gardens, play tennis and hike in the mountains, the hot days also present a significant danger to unprepared people, says Dr. Robert A. Campbell, director of the LDS Hospital Emergency Center. Whenever the temperature outside reaches 95 we need to take certain precautions against certain problems the heat can cause including heat exhaustion and sunstroke, says Dr. Campbell. The less serious of these two conditions is heat exhaustion which is brought on by the victim working out in the sun on a particularly hot day. This patient usually is not accustomed to being out in such heat and hasnt taken adequate steps to replace the fluids his body has lost through Although heat exhaustion is a frightening experience for the victim, there is relatively little chance of serious injury as long as he can quickly move out of the heat and replace his body fluids, says Dr. Campbell. Thats not true about sunstroke. victims body accumulates heat at a much faster rate than his body can get rid of it through TTiis sweating, he says. Often his temperature rises above 104 degrees causing some damage to his sweating mechanism. He can no longer sweat thus causing his body to get even hotter. However this absence of sweating is not always present. . Anyone suspected of suffering a sunstroke should immediate receive emergency care, says Dr. Campbell. A fast response is necessary to prevent permanent brain damage or even death, caused by high body temperatures. After medical assistance has been called for or if it is not available, the victim should be placed in a shady area, his clothing loosened or removed and his body sponged with cool water. The best treatment is literally to pack the person in The ice, he explains. important thing is to bring his temperature down as quickly as possible. The symptoms of heat exhaustion and stroke are often difficult to detect in another person. The first indication of heat exhaustion is a sudden and unexplainable nausea which is quickly followed by feelings of extreme body weakness. Sunstroke is normally accompanied by a reduction in the quality or clarity of thinking, general feelings of paranoia and extreme body weakness quickly leading to unconsciousness. Hay fever prominent in summertime Each year the warm weather of spring brings with it green grass, beautiful flowers, shady trees and, to over 17 SALT LAKE CITY million Americans, a special kind of misery. These people all suffer from hay fever an affliction with the wrong name since most victims are not allergic to hay and do not have a fever. What these people have is a seasonal allergy to pollen normally associated with trees in the spring, grasses in the summer and weeds in the fall, says Dr. Lorimer T. Christensen, LDS Hospital Family $800 25 lbs 20 lbs. Your rank could be worth 20 more in Todays Army Reserve than even two years ago. An E-with three years now makes over $90 a weekend. Over $1,300 a year. Not bad for a weekend a month and two weeks a year. Dont forget PX privileges and the will then march to 25th and Good Washington, where Company will present two of its internationally-acclaime- d performances. Nourse was recently stricken with cancer and has since been assisting the of the Utah Division American Cancer Society in educating the public to the realities of the disease. Talking recently about his disease, Nourse said: First I thought I had the flu, then I thought I had pneumonia. Then when I couldnt dress myself, couldnt work, had back pains, high fever and swollen glands I checked into a hospital. I had some fear of cancer, he said but I never thought it would hit me. It was scary, Nourse said. It was like being hit between the eyes. I wondered how long I had. Then the doctors comforted me and explained that in the form of cancer I had, the recovery rate was 70 percent, and that was five years ago. com- puter terminology and how to program small comMr. Summers puters, explained. to 100 degrees, always has its been. an enormous help to doctors at the facility. Local 4--H dub studies computers Businesseses Restaurant is allergist. The symptoms of include this sneezing, itching nose and condition nasal congestion often ac- companied by itching, tearing and redness of the eyes. Hay fever is caused when a person develops an allergic response to tiny, airborne matter such as pollen, animal dander, mold spores or dusts. The tendency to fever is develop hay inherited and can surface at any point in the victims life. Thereafter once coming into contact with this particular substance, the victims body creates a special antibody which, rather than protecting the body from a Nature has gone one step too far, says Dr. Christensen. the pollens Although responsible for most hay fever attacks are abudant from spring through late autumn, most people can take certain steps to protect themselves. First they can reduce their exposure to the offending agent by remaining indoors on windy days, avoiding long car rides with the windows rolled down, keeping bedroom windows closed during the night and not drying clothes outside. Avoidance is the very cornerstone of controlling an . says allergy, Dr. Yet no one Christensen. wants to stay indoors from April through October simply because he has hay fever. So if avoidance is neither possible nor totally effective, the next step is buying a hay fever are those medication available in most drug stores. The most effective allergy medications containing only ti histamines decongestants. an- and You should those avoid buying medications containing aspirin, extra drying agents and pain killers since these drugs contribute nothing to foreign substance or in- -' symptom control and can fection, actually causes the cause other problems, Dr. hay fevers symptoms to Christensen notes. If these medications fail to Its as if Mother appear. relieve the uncomfortable symptoms, the next step is to COMMERCICEREAL a prescription for a get AL Breads and cereals are antihistamine and nutritious, filling, moderate 'stronger decongestant. on the in calories, and easy The person should not ask pocketbook. Two or more nor - receive a hay fever for n whole-graidaily servings of since this is simply an shot or enriched cereal or bread containing a large injection to products is a healthy way cor dose of a build strong bodies. slow-relea- tisone derivative, he says. We are seeing more and more patients suffering serious side effects from these allergy shots. These complications include growth retardation in children, worsening of peptic ulcer disease, hypertension, diabetes, depression, menstrual irregularities, glaucoma and weight gain. If the hay fever victim cannot physically tolerate or simply doesnt wish to take the prescribed medication for a long period of time, he may then be referred to an These patients allergist. are usually individuals who dont want hay fever at all rather than those who can already treat the symptoms says effectively, Dr. Christensen. This physician carefully examines and studies the patient while sophisticated skin tests are performed to determine the exact offending agents. Once the allergy is pinpointed a desensitization program can be set up whereby the patient will be given a series of injections designed to safely diminish his allergy response. These injections are normally given twice weekly for four to six months. The frequency is then reduced to once a week and later to once every two to four weeks. takes This program about three years to com- plete with the average patient not seeing any visible signs of improvement for six to nine months," explains Dr. Christensen. But these patients arent looking for immediate results. They want the 90 percent change of preventing their symptoms completely." |