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It's difficult, but Dr. Yury Pelech makes his phone call. Doctors broke his neck deliberately to help correct an arthritic condition in his spine. Fra(...)
It's difficult, but Dr. Yury Pelech makes his phone call. Doctors broke his neck deliberately to help correct an arthritic condition in his spine. Fra(...)

It's difficult, but Dr. Yury Pelech makes his phone call. Doctors broke his neck deliberately to help correct an arthritic condition in his spine. Fra(...)

Date11/11/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's difficult, but Dr. Yury Pelech makes his phone call. Doctors broke his neck deliberately to help correct an arthritic condition in his spine. Frame is screwed into his skull. Dr. Pelech is recovering in Toronto East General.
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Doctors broke his neck deliberately in a delicate operation to help correct a painful arthritis condition in his spine
Doctors broke his neck deliberately in a delicate operation to help correct a painful arthritis condition in his spine
11/11/1970
Dr Yury Pelech. He has trouble with his 'halo' in cars
Dr Yury Pelech. He has trouble with his 'halo' in cars
12/3/1970
Dr. Yury Pelech
Dr. Yury Pelech
11/11/1970
Doctor arrives: Dr. Norman Jones, 68, is welcomed as he makes a house call. Jones who admits he now prefers to see most of his patients in his office,(...)
Doctor arrives: Dr. Norman Jones, 68, is welcomed as he makes a house call. Jones who admits he now prefers to see most of his patients in his office,(...)
4/16/1987
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
After: Dawn Hosier and Dr. Earl Farber after surgery. The pair is sitting in the doctor's Inn on the Park office. It's amazing - the change makes you feel good about yourself, Hosier says
After: Dawn Hosier and Dr. Earl Farber after surgery. The pair is sitting in the doctor's Inn on the Park office. It's amazing - the change makes you feel good about yourself, Hosier says
4/22/1986
Lean and friendly Dr. Robin Tattershall, above, offers a different kind of vacation at his Bougainvillea Clinic, left, overlooking Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. You can, if you meet the doctor's approval, come away tanned, fit and with a new face or a different nose or figure. The clinic with its pool and Moorish arches was built to be a small, posh hotel.
Lean and friendly Dr. Robin Tattershall, above, offers a different kind of vacation at his Bougainvillea Clinic, left, overlooking Road Town, Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. You can, if you meet the doctor's approval, come away tanned, fit and with a new face or a different nose or figure. The clinic with its pool and Moorish arches was built to be a small, posh hotel.
3/1/1986
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
5/29/1974
Doctor on call: Dr. Hugh Siddell examined Ali Shariff three times while court was being held in his bedroom to make sure his heart could take the strain.
Doctor on call: Dr. Hugh Siddell examined Ali Shariff three times while court was being held in his bedroom to make sure his heart could take the strain.
9/23/1985
Tragic aftermath: Bramalea teenager Jack Riley, 17, a quadriplegic after he broke his neck during a highschool rugby game last May, is visited in the intensive-care unit of Toronto Western Hospital by his parents
Tragic aftermath: Bramalea teenager Jack Riley, 17, a quadriplegic after he broke his neck during a highschool rugby game last May, is visited in the intensive-care unit of Toronto Western Hospital by his parents
2/6/1987
Lucky man: Donald Elborn broke his neck diving into shallow water last month, but was lucky not to injure his spinal cord.
Lucky man: Donald Elborn broke his neck diving into shallow water last month, but was lucky not to injure his spinal cord.
8/2/1989
Young heroes: Jim McLellan, 11, left, and his brother John, 13, jumped into the family pool Labor Day weekend after their father broke his neck diving in and didn't resurface
Young heroes: Jim McLellan, 11, left, and his brother John, 13, jumped into the family pool Labor Day weekend after their father broke his neck diving in and didn't resurface
10/10/1983