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Show Letter to Editor Asks for Help Reinstating Doctor letter to the editor There is a movement going on in our community to help Dr. Claude R. Thomas get reinstated to the Amercian Fork Hospital staff. We have been wholeheartedly involved in this movement. We the patients pa-tients and friends of Dr. Thomas feel he has been dealt with in-justly in-justly and we want this injustice in-justice brought to the attention atten-tion of the public. We are prepared to do whatever we must to show the hospital board and the doctors in the area how we feel. We cannot and will not just sit by and watch a man as qualified as Dr. Thomas be forced to leave the area to pursue his profession. When there is such a critical shortage of doctors in this area we cannot understand how we can afford to lose a doctor the caliber of Dr. Thomas. It is a well known fact that our doctors are overworked n&w, and at the rate the area is growing this nroblem can onlv get worse. We wonder if anyone has stopped to think what will happen to the patients of Dr. Thomas if he gives up his practice here. The doctors in the area, as I have already stated, are over-loaded with patients. The only alternative open to us will be to go to Provo or Salt Lake to find a competent doctor. This will also mean a loss of revenue of the American Fork Hospital. But we don't, want this to happen, we want Dr. Thomas to stay and to be permitted to treat his patients properly. There is no doubt in our minds that he is a qualified physician and that he should be reinstated to the hospital staff. The fact that his patients patien-ts have taken such a strong stand in this matter shows what a high regard we have for him as a man and a doctor. There are so many people who are too quick to condemr solely on the basis of hearsaj without taking the time to gel to the truth of the matter. I: you believe as we do, that Dr Thomas should be given th chance to serve the com munity, please let your voici be heard. Signed: . Ron and Dedbbie Pulley Kay and Kathryn Wanlass John and Betty Roberts, Ma: f and Kay Bond, Jay and . Beverly ' Chidester, Dennis s and Carma Grace, Kent and - Peggy Shephard, Evan and 3 Cynthia Harris, Ernest and Charlotte Hoggard, Clifford and Bonnie Jones, Barbara , Adamson, Harley and Kathy i, Baum, LaVell and Joan s Russon.' |