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Got well sooner: Pat Terry, recovering yesterday in Toronto General Hospital after heart surgery, says: It's incredible that people have to wait so long for treatment
Got well sooner: Pat Terry, recovering yesterday in Toronto General Hospital after heart surgery, says: It's incredible that people have to wait so long for treatment

Got well sooner: Pat Terry, recovering yesterday in Toronto General Hospital after heart surgery, says: It's incredible that people have to wait so long for treatment

Date10/24/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Got well sooner: Pat Terry, recovering yesterday in Toronto General Hospital after heart surgery, says: It's incredible that people have to wait so long for treatment.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Non-urgent surgery will have to wait
Non-urgent surgery will have to wait
Combs, Erin
3/10/1976
After Open-Heart surgery that kept her in Toronto nine months, Mrs
After Open-Heart surgery that kept her in Toronto nine months, Mrs
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
10/3/1968
Warming up: Bob McCulloch says lack of funds for essential services contributed to his unnecessary heart attack while on a waiting list for bypass surgery
Warming up: Bob McCulloch says lack of funds for essential services contributed to his unnecessary heart attack while on a waiting list for bypass surgery
Dunlop, Al
1/31/1989
Mrs. Lam Wing Sim, 35, travelled more than 7,000 miles from her home in Hong Kong for heart surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. She's shown here (...)
Mrs. Lam Wing Sim, 35, travelled more than 7,000 miles from her home in Hong Kong for heart surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. She's shown here (...)
Griffin, Doug
1/1/1968
Debbie Burnett: Mom waits for infant's heart transplant in a London hospital
Debbie Burnett: Mom waits for infant's heart transplant in a London hospital
Stawicki, Andrew
5/22/1988
Mom Phyllis Bruce (centre) is all smiles and so are grandparents Annie and Daniel Bruce as they wait at Ronald McDonald House in London, Ont., to give(...)
Mom Phyllis Bruce (centre) is all smiles and so are grandparents Annie and Daniel Bruce as they wait at Ronald McDonald House in London, Ont., to give(...)
Bruce, Gabriel
9/23/1986
On road to health: Terry Buckton, 27, and Jean Patey, 28, who each received a new heart and two new lungs at Toronto General Hospital this summer, compared notes at hospital yesterday
On road to health: Terry Buckton, 27, and Jean Patey, 28, who each received a new heart and two new lungs at Toronto General Hospital this summer, compared notes at hospital yesterday
Griffin, Doug
9/19/1985
Paul Starkey shows off the T-shirt he made for his mother while recovering from leg cancer
Paul Starkey shows off the T-shirt he made for his mother while recovering from leg cancer
Loek, Dick
9/16/1987
Long wait for Christine Eberhardt and Lindsay
Long wait for Christine Eberhardt and Lindsay
Eberhardt, Lindsay
7/26/1984
He was 'Dead' for three minutes and 11 seconds: Leslie Sharpe's heart stopped for that long and during his period of unconsciousness, he recalls, his sensations were all of pleasureable experiences
He was 'Dead' for three minutes and 11 seconds: Leslie Sharpe's heart stopped for that long and during his period of unconsciousness, he recalls, his sensations were all of pleasureable experiences
Ross, Fred
8/30/1971
Two-Week-Old Kevin Laffan, Jr., With Parents Kevin, Sr., and Shirley, We Just Can't Believe He Came Through It so Well, Says 18-year-old Mother
Two-Week-Old Kevin Laffan, Jr., With Parents Kevin, Sr., and Shirley, We Just Can't Believe He Came Through It so Well, Says 18-year-old Mother
Grant, Frank
9/19/1963
Barry Sherwood, 27, Out of hospital a day after the surgery
Barry Sherwood, 27, Out of hospital a day after the surgery
Goode, Jeff
3/16/1975