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Show Sun Chronicle Thursday, August 21, 1975 Slin Chronicle psrJm The urban high rise is the new, tall stranger in many a girls life. With more and more women opting for the single life and the city, the number of cosmopolitan cliff dwellers is soaring. Widows and the new ly unattached also are finding high rise life compatible with their new roles. The hazards of fire in the high fear of rise have been well publicized But another hazard has been one towering dread attack on person or property always present but unspoken. among women the in skyscraper means attention to security and its Safety proper use Lois Winterbere. manager of the Womens Dept, of the I National Safety Council, said choosing good security' and using that security is your best safeguard against burglary and personal attack Dont become a skyscraper hermit! If you hike advantage of the many security measures offered by most high rises and supplement them with good common sense, you can indeed live on high without feeling trapped or in danger," she said "For your safety, soled a building tuned in to tenant security, the safety sportswoman said. Among the safety features a woman alone might look for, Ms Winterberg noted, might be a chain of security that begins with a stop point at the 24 hour doorman station, a lobby telephone buzz system preferably with coded numbers that will allow a visitor to call you from downstairs but will not tip off your apartment number, and television camera views of back entrance and parking lot areas. Management also should provide you with a door peephole, inside chain guard and a deadbolt lock. "But all this security might be window dressing. Get the real story on how good the security system is by talking to other women in the building, cautioned Ms. Winterberg. "If their experiences prove to be positive and you do decide to sign a lease, initiate your personal protection program by making sure that your lobby buzzer, mailbox and doorbell name plates carry your first initial and last name only. If you have a professional title do not list it. Swallow your pride and omit the Dr., M.D., Prof, etc from your name It also is a good idea to have your name listed in the telephone directory in the same manner. This prevents possible problempeople from determining your marital status, sex and financial condition, suggested Ms. W'interberg. The safety expert added the following advice for women alone: Always keep your apartment door locked. Even if its just a trip to the garbage chute, close and lock your door. Wliile your back is turned, someone may enter your apartment and be waiting for you when you return. Lock your door behind you immediately after entering your apartment. Dont walk to the kitchen with a bag of groceries ; put them down and then return to lock the door. Someone may follow you inside. Put your packages down inside the door, lock it and then proceed to put them away inside the apartment. Dont carry your housekey in your purse or wallet or on the ring with your car keys. If your purse is stolen or you lose your car keys, you have just given a burglar an engraved invitation to your house. As a safety measure anytime, you should remove all but the ignition key to your car when you turn it over to parking attendants, the car wash, service people, etc. It takes only a lump of clay and a few seconds to make an well-deserv- impression of your house keys for future use by an unscrupulous person. Never let anyone in your apartment you dont know, without asking for complete identification first. Then call down to the main desk to verify. Some burglars have been known to dress like servicemen, maintenance personnel, delivery men, appraisal of your apart etc., so they can get a quick-peements contents for future jobs. If the person at your door balks at showing credentials, notify the main desk immediately. He may be casing" the to easy enpremises door by door, waiting for a to work." trance so he can get Dont ignore a knock at your door no matter what time It could be someone knocking to alert you to fire or other emergency situation or it could be a burglar testing for an unoccupied apartment to rob. Use your peephole to check Report anything suspicious to the main desk. and Remember most burglars are sneak thieves a is in to harder do make their can point job your you anything favor. They want to get in and out fast and quietly. Buy and use the best possible locks for your doors if they are not already provided. No burglar is going to risk beating down the door to get inside. Hes rather move on and try other doorknobs. Most burglars wont risk burglarizing an occupied apartment. So give the illusion of someone home while you are gone by playing the radio, using light timers, keeping the air conditioning unit on etc. Every indication you can give that someone is home reduces the chance of forced entry. Suppose a burglar does get in? You can still reduce his haul and make life miserable and less profitable for him. Remember burglars like to work fast so slow him down. Put television portables in bookshelves, radios in cabinets; hang clothes with the hangers hung in alternate directions so a burglar cant strip the closets in one fast swoop. Lock up valuables, checkbooks, credit cards. Keep important documents and your really good pieces of jewelry, etc., in a bank safe deposit box. In other words, make the burglar really work for his dollar and chances are hell settle for pennies. Have an inventory list of your valuables on hand. Note on it the serial numbers of television, radios, stereo equipment, typewriters, electrical appliances, etc. If your property is stolen and recovered, this inventory list will make identification and return easier. What should you do if you walk in on a burglary in progress in your apartment? Dont confront the burglar. Get out of his way fast, slip out and get help. Keep in mind that a burglar likes quiet, sneaky work and abhors discovery. He may retaliate in an unplanned and perhaps harmful manner if you try to obstruct him. Let the police make the capture, not you. If your building allows pets, buy yourself a dog. It doesnt have to be a big killer. Even little ones can serve guard duty and make a burglar think about moving on to a quieter door. Let pooch have the run of the house at night. Take your dog with you when you visit the laundry room, vending room, etc. He may be the little furry shield you need between you and attack. Few if any attackers want a yapping dog announcing their deeds, and most troublemakers would rather avoid a person with a dog. k We know what's happening in our hometown recently published a four-par- t report on the proposed Ogden Municipal Airport expansion. We cover local celebrations and events and bring you first-hanpictures of what w'e find. Can you afford not to know these things, too? Not in Israel, or Los Angeles, but right here in Roy. Because you live here, too, you need to know about the things which affect you in-dep- th now! Tax rates first-han- neighbors' city projects accomplishments what entertainment your in These school. child is doing things are our specialty. We d d i i i i i i i i i I I ! Name Remittance enclosed. Mail this form along The Sun Chronicle I I I 1 $5.50 for 1 yeor $9.00 for two years 1900 W Roy Utah 5388 S (stsn Chronicle news and photographs for Thursdays paper must be in the news office before Monday at 5 p.m. Pictures may be included without charge, either taken in the office or submitted by you. All J. Howard Stahle Owner-Publish- Mrs. Bonnie Stahle Mrs. Pat Sutter Bonnie Cantwell mail - Criminals like the dark. It makes for good hiding. Notify building management whenever lights burn out, especially in areas such as the laundry room, back entrance, entrance halls, etc. "T he w oman living alone in a high rise may be safer than her sister living in a residential home or two-fla- t due to the stringent security systems in the taller, modem buildings, Ms W interburg said. Failure to make complete use of all these safeguards is a waste and perhaps someday for some a dead giveaway, she added. Julie Johnson Lonnie Reid vour er Advertising Mgr. Editor Managing Editor ssistant Vssistant Correspondents: Boy LDS Church and Bov Sunset News, Virginia Wursten, News and Sunset LPS church News, Denise Clearfield News, Mammon, Marijane Adams, 825-664- I - 825-947- 6; 4; 825-065- 8. Malpractice insurance rates skyrocket (Editors note: This is the an important part second of a series of six ar- overall solution, he ticles concerning the medical There is a small professional liability of problem doctors, insurance (malpractice) problem in Utah. The material was prepared by the Utah State Medical Association whose 1,375 of the said. number and the medical profession is as interested as the public, if not more so, in seeing them taken out of the practice of Dr. McQuarrie medicine, said. Its not like your automobile insurance where major cause cited by most better prepared to treat the patients they see, they are going to be able to see fewer patients, he said. While there is a doctor shortage nationwide and in some rural areas in Utah, an everyone for the increased number of suits being brought against physicians. My doctor doesnt talk to me anymore, is a common complaint heard from the public. I had to wait 45 is minutes to see him, He didnt even another. is yet know my name, another. Again, we acknowledge that there has been a serious breakdown in communication between doctors and their patients and that this is a serious aspect of the overall con- important equally sideration is that the demand for care of minor illness has increased with the general affluence of the country. And, doctors taking more time with the patients they do see, but seeing fewer patients, is not going to help that Dr. McQuarrie situation, said. And, then, there is the problem of the specialist who may not have the opportunity to know the patient perWhile the sonally. or the anesthesiologist vascular or thoracic surgeon should know the psychosocial situation of his patient, the fact is that in the relatively short time he is involved, he may not have the opportunity. This lack of a personal relationship makes them more prone to suits, Dr. McQuarrie said. The technological advances that have improved the practice of medicine in the past few years are another reason for the breakdown in the doctor-patierelationship, he said. "Physicians need the in- practicing physicians make 99 up percent of the nongovernment doctors in the better your driving Utah.) The Causes record, the lower your inProfessional liability surance rates. The vast insurance majority of Utahs doctors do (malpractice) rates for doctors and practice competently within hospitals have skyrocketed their skill levels but are across the nation and Utah is paying insurance rates problem, Dr. McQuarrie no exception. reflecting the lawsuits and said. Doctors are concerned settlements of the problem Patients who are mad at he said, an in- the doctor before he treats because they must be doctors, covered by professional teresting part of the problem them are more likely to sue liability insurance or they that needs more investigation him afterward, he said. cannot the physicians the and discussion is that Utahs But, practice profession for which they doctors and hospitals are honestly feel that one of the have spent their lifetimes paying liability insurance major causes of compreparing and for which rates based on the insurance munications breakdown is there is such need. expectations, companies national ex- unreasonable And, increased medical perience, Dr. McQuarrie what we refer to as the Marcus Welby syndrome insurance rates are a said. The problem doctor is among Dr. business expense for the patients, doctor and the hospital which part of the problem and will McQuartrie said. must be passed on to the have to be part of the Doctors are not miracle Dr. McQuarrie workers. We can only consumer you, the patient. solution, doctors and said. Utahs guarantee our patients our A of a to best efforts, not a cure, the are committed legal hospitals representative continuing to provide the best organization recently was Utah medical leader said. The public has been led t9 medical care of which they quoted as saying that seven are capable on an uni- out of ten malpractice believe that modern medicine basis at a lawsuits are finally decided can cure any illness, repair nterrupted reasonable cost. Insurance by the courts in the doctors any damage. That simply is not true, Dr. McQuarrie formation and assistance premium increases of 300 to favor. That means that 70 per400 percent, said. which are they receive from these What a patient sees Dr. electronic marvels, but what becoming relatively com- cent of those suits were, in mon, bear directly on the effect, nuisance lawsuits. The Welby do successfully on it often means is that instead doctors and hospitals ability cost of defending against television in five minutes of a sympathetic doctor at his to deliver the best medical them must be another reason may, in actuality, take two or or her bedside, there is a cold, care possible at a reasonable for the tremendous increase three skilled physicians eight complicated machine, Dr. in our insurance rates, Dr. or nine hours, with no McQuarrie said. cost in several ways. There are almost as many McQuarrie said. Medicine is changing very guarantee of any success, Part of the solution must Dr. McQuarrie said. causes for the medical rapidly. Medical knowledge Patients must realize that doubles every five to eight liability insurance problem be finding a better, more as there are lawyers and stable yet fair system of doctors are people, too, and years, and that means the doctors and legislators and screening medical that we may have been called doctor-patierelationship hospital administrators and malpractice lawsuits so that two or three times during the has and will change; but we insurance men and patients. these cases never make it to night and just come out of physicians acknowledge that And, that means that to some court and end up costing us early morning surgery, are we need constant reminders degree we are all part of the all, patient and doctor alike, tired and simply dont feel to simply talk more with our Dr. like small talk, Dr. patients, he said. so much money," problem. McQuarrie said. The problem has been McQuarrie said. Just as a doctor's day is as The insurance companies But, we realize we have caused by a tremendous and complex as the varied increase in the number of say they are controlled the obligation to better inillnesses he sees, the causes of cost form ourselves about our doing lawsuits alleging malpractice simply by the of the medical liability into the as and and better inform that business patients being brought against surance problem are as physicians and hospitals and number of lawsuits being them about their illness and varied and complex as the of the the possible results what many consider to be brought against physicians involved. And, thats people of we awards recomtreatment amount the are the and unreasonable amounts of all of us. money being awarded by have increased, they have mending, he said. of Most to the doctors cost to the are going had increase What are some of the juries in some cases. have to take more time to talk solutions being discussed? Some doctors believe that insurance. with their patients, which That is the subject of the next Deterioration of the doctor-patiethe cause is the lawyers relationship is a means that while they may be article in this series. contingency fee system which means that a lawyer will take a case and base his GENERAL REVENUE compensation on a perACTUAL USE REPORT SHARING centage of the award granted The court. the the larger by HESF Hi , SLD )P tjrli UiA'f NOS J 0u V p ocA award, the larger the SH z, at SPEV NOTE ANYOl COMPt Pi jfliN jHhDlJtNCOuRAbf NL( AINTS OF DISC RIMIfc ATION IN THE USE OF ESE. f UN DS MAY BE SEN' H) THE mu fit l in some which SHARING WASHINGTON OC 2 0??6 lawyers fee, cases has the government malpractice OF amounted to 50 percent. the JkLS7 Greedy lawyers are problem, according to some physicians. s fcN . D I AM EhNV-N- A TH I I I I I with your check to 6. D I .Zip- - City half-dresse- d i 1 Address -- Dont wander around the apartment with the shades up. And dont go outside the apartment on such errands as dropping the garbage wearing babydolls, etc. You are advertising for trouble. Going away for a long weekend, vacation, visit? Tell management about your plans and see if they might have someone keep an eye on your apartment while you are gone. They dont like burglaries either. In addition to their concern for tenants, it gives their apartments a bad name and serves as a negative selling point to prospective tenants. Stop deliveries of the newspaper, etc., and have your neighbors collect the N 1 would ke to have the Roy Sun Chronicle mailed to my home every Thursday. Please start my subscription right away YES 825-166- nt Let us tell you about it! i i i i The Sun Chronicle is published weeklv at Roy, Utah, 5588 S. 1900 VV. Mailing address, P.O. Box 207, Roy, Utah 84007. Telephone I I I I .1 m. l Bad doctors are the problem, according to some lawyers. The reason there are so many medical malpractice lawsuits is because there Is so much medical s 5 Rf r jS a : is 1A iil.i SJ7 iv leaders of the trial lawyers association recently have been quoted as saying. We acknowledge that there is medical malpracDr. Howard G. tice, McQuarrie, president of the Medical State Utah Association, said recently. And, obtaining the passage of proposed legislation by the Utah Legislature which will enable the medical profession to better police itself must be i J'.i'f. sc s malpractice, ti, r Bi v rr 'j f bfj nj ,n Ju 3v tu j;4 Jar thru 10 H 5 ot U'tNl V led JU, J74 rh 4 funds 1 5 R.eae) tr I'n oy Sum ol lines 12 3 4 qal June 30 C LJS.O- nN Yli( ' j j' r , 0 JJ nr the HE VI Vo Av N r St 7 Total Q .2 N MET (Sum of line Bain Jl ml 'j' t. pi jl Se it)i' rV Dat A'rf i A funds 8 Toiot Am Ava ujnt 16 msiiI qn S 30-(- . Sj : lanie lpendd 3 jn1 0lum June JO .ILV i 9 6 Funds Returned F)ORS S 5 .? $ N ...iUllill., r uNO an c is il Rev I' ,M .,Jj ; 2 f. 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