THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday November IS IMS Outlook op Lifestyle Clever ways to use plastic foam trays By Polly DEAR POLLY I nave many uses for the plastic foam trays that come under meats and bakery products For example use them for warm Ing food or baking potatoes In the ml To cook bacon In the POINTERS POLLY FISHER wave 1 place folded napkins In the bottom of the tray put the bacon on top then cover it with a paper towel There s no grease to clean up Also these trays are nice to put baked goods on The packages look nice covered with plastic wrap and there no pan or dish Tor the recipient to return I also use them for freexing food wrapped with foil The food get crushed easily when placed on the trays first Theyre also nice to put under fruit baskets or rood that might drip when stored In the refrigerator MARGERY DEAR MARGERY win the prise for sending in the most helpful bints using these plait foam trays In one letter Your helpful pointers earn you the Pointer of the Week award a copy of my book Polly Pointer 1 081 Helpful Hints for Making ery thing Last Longer Others may order It for IS SO Make your check payable to POLLY POINTERS and send to POLLYS POINTERS Box Cleveland OH SSI POLLY DEAR POLLY Vinyl changing pads made tor babies are nice toslt on at football games rainy season wet seats And here a quick recipe for French pancakes Combine cup fine dry bread crumbs 1 egg A vanilla or maple extract and 1 table spoon milk In a blender Whip till smooth Cook as for pancakes DEAR POLLY If you have a with rust stains In your toilet owl put cup of chlorine bleach in the tank once a week A FRIEND Polly will send you a Polly Dollar if sac uses your favorite Pointer Peeve or Problem In her column Write POLLYS POINTERS to care this newspaper lU The Halloa Library and Cultural Centre gallery hotting an exhibit of photographs and painting by Georgetown Tom and Rntn Gibson The show which features some of Mr Gibson best photographic and selected water colors and oils by Mrs Gibson photography and several of print on display were shot In the Maritime and in the Rocky Mountain Mr Gibson It showing several floral display water colors at well as an array of oil paintings depicting outdoor until Dec 11 Mr Gibson pedal lie li landic Beware doctors who recycle patients By Peter H Gott MA DR GOTT came to him after little if any thought Recycle the patients he at Dr Ethan Merga troy d ready had mate dermatologist was Increasingly Here is a synopsis of how the Mer inclined to offer unsolicited advice to gatroyd Method works the Almighty Often In his fashion Visit No 1 Middleaged man with ably lavish southern California of ice small skin cancer on upper lip Brief suite be acted as though he had an number to God This hubris bow ever simply reflected another He had succeeded where other had failed in beating the After years of trial schemes he had finally bit on a sure fire method to milk his herd of pa tients and at the same time bilk Insurance companies and Medicare He had taken his cue from the Japa automobile manufacturers whose values of productivity and vol time be embraced with the single- minded enthusiasm of a Trappist Moat especially the volume After struggling to build bis prac tice for several years during which be bad dutifully assigned each patient a time slot and charged ac cordingly Mergatroyd realized that be would never become rich following mainstream medicine Rather with a little maneuvering and some creative appointment scheduling he taw that he could see three maybe four patients in IS minutes Because third party payers shell out according to officecall units not time spent the doctor discovered that be could triple or quadruple his In come by merely spending less time with each patient and still charge the full fee I examination Mergatroyd properly concludes that Ihe lesion should be re moved Most doctors would remove the cancer then and there and see the for a follow up This Is not our ro style however Patient told to return next week Initial evaluation Visit No Patient presented with written content for surgery Ez to read the document and sign it before leaving the premises No ez Appointment scheduled for next week Office visit Visit No The operation Cancer excised under local anesthesia and sent to lab for analysis Patient not allowed out of examining room until surgical fee is paid by cash or check Patient Instructed to return neat week Removal of skin cancer Anesthesia service Visit No Removal of I Visit No Wound healed No new skin cancers Patient to be followed every four months Post operative care Visit No and ad Infinitum per ice call until the cycle of new skin cancers repeats Itself Bingo A skin cancer removal that could have been taken care of in 15 minutes burgeons Into a ex with no end In sight Insurance or Medicare pays these ballooned up charges without a blink By repeated ly using this Imaginative fandango to perfection Mergatroyd can easily ford to drive and maintain his new Dino Ferrari The patient to terrified and dated by the term skin cancer He doesn t care bow much the treatment costs or who else pays for It be Just wants the cancer gone But you and fellow consumers of medical care are paying for It through bloated taxes and inflated in premiums The system is greased by this legal larceny and woe betide any physician who squawks that the system needs renovation The answer an informed public that will demand responsibility through fiscal restraint and common PS The Mergatroyd story Is true Only the name has been changed protect the guilty fabric forum As Smooth As Velvet an evenly napped can be made from a var of fibers The deeper and denier Itic pile more luxurious lie fabric True velvet is woven with yarn Rocked velvet is created adhering fibers 10 ace of i he fabric This is a lei durable ion uracil on because pile off more readily Velvets require rye leaning Because of deep colors all be cleaned at BARRAGERS CLEANERS LAUNDROMAT ToSarvm YouBtttmri Bantam ITT FOR 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