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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday March 1K9 Page 11 Helpful surgery was disastrous James Burt of Dayton Ohio is a surgeon who believes that nothing succeeds like excess For years he performed crude experimentation on hundreds of worn en without their consent according to Isabel Wilkinson writing in The New York Times Women are turally inadequate for intercourse wrote Burt this is a pathological condition amenable to surgery The doctor claimed that his operation which involved removing the hood of the clitoris and repositioning the vagi na would turn women into horny lit tie mice DR Unfortunately Burt s urproved op eration was a disaster By acting on his belief that he could improve on na the surgeon ruined many worn ens lives Investigators sifting through the records were astounded to learn that Burt s colleagues did not speak up earlier to put an end to his barbarism Burt himself has been charged by the Ohio State Medical Board with gross immorality and grossly unprofessional conduct The board is currently seeking to charge some Dayton physicians with com because for years these doc tors knew what was going on but looked the other way The Burt procedure unrecognized by the American College of Obstetri Easy omelets your aim Read here DEAR POLLY I use a quick and easy method to cook fluffy omelets on the stove top Whisk room tempera eggs with a generous amount of milk half and half or cream is better until frothy and light Melt butter in a cast iron or other heavy skillet until it sizzles and bubbles just short of burning Pour the egg mix in all at once cov er with a tight fitting glass lid and re duce heat to very tow Do not shake pan or raise cover until eggs are set very quick peeks from the side if you t use a glass lid to see if the eggs are done Once the eggs are set add desired fillings and recover to heat filling ingredients or melt cheese Fold in half and slide onto plate This method really bulks up the eggs a easily serves two adults I add finely chopped tomato 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SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Wednesday Holy Thursday Good Friday Holy Saturday March 22 alter 7 30 p m Matt until m March 23 3 3D p until 5 after 30 Mass until 9 00 p March 24 10 a until 00 Noon after 1 Liturgy after 3 00 Liturgy after 7 30 p m Stations of the Cross March 25 10 00 a until 12 Noon Note No confessions are scheduled after 12 Noon on Holy Saturday Fat Inquiries contact Winston Robinson at B731B87 CHURCH DIRECTORY TO ADVERTISE IN THIS SPACE CALL DISPLAY ADVERTISING 8772201 DENOMINATIONAL PENTECOSTAL ALL PEOPLES CHURCH DELIVERANCE CENTRE Boulevard Bramalsa comer FlnchgatsHwy Bible Study Worship Deliverance Sunday 30 a 7 m Wednesday m We Provide- Children Church Service English toItalian translate Pastor George A LeBoy 7922176 cians and Gynecologists caused women to experience sexual dysfunc tion extensive scarring and chronic urinary infections Experts estimate that the operations required to repair the damage done by Burt would cost 000 per woman with no guarantee of success Despite persistent plead and complaints by a few doctors the Medical Board took no action until the governor insisted on an tlon Physicians across the country said they were astonished and out raged that Burt had operated outside recognized standards for so long Its a disgrace to all of medicine said Sidney Wolfe director of the Public Citizens Health Research Group a consumer advo organization Evidently many surgeons refused to blow the whi tie on Burt out of fear of legal retribution they were afraid Burt would sue them if they com plained Thus the case focuses on a troublesome issue the inability of or medicine to police itself If doctors like Burt are permitted to practice in civilized communities such as Dayton how effective is the medical profession in weeding out in competent elsewhere Not very in certain instances All doctors make mistakes so we are warned about taking too much joy in the mistakes of others The boo merang effect is well known the ve hemence with which one M cizes another can be turned around in another situation at another time when the shoe so to speak Is on the other foot Especially In small com hospitals the associate you criticize this year may be looking over your shoulder as chief of staff next year This potential friction Is not something ordinary doctors welcome Also some physicians are merely eccentric they do things differently without causing much harm or dis comfort to their patients Healers are very loathe to complain in public about their confreres uncustomary approaches However at the other end of the spectrum away from the glitches and eccentricities lies the dangerous doc tor the practitioner who Is im paired disturbed or untrained Surely the profession must find satisfactory methods to get rid of such incompe tents Why have we been unable to do so Is the legal system so turvy that the rights of the accused take precedence over the rights of the vie tim Why do we consistently take the smoother more well traveled road of denying the problem or ignoring it and hoping it will go away Is this simply human nature or a vicious tradeguild mentality If Burt had been Intent on improv ing men s genitals rather than worn en s I wonder if he would have been put out of business much sooner and whether the male medical communl ty would have been so slow to act Sexism is not a new concept in the healing profession 74 A Main St N Georgetown 6733 ithe income tax pecuust8 8 Mill Street Acton TAXSCENF PENSION PLAN PAYOUT QUESTION am years old and upon retirement I re cetved in a lump sum from a registered pension plan The plan had been set up in 1972 by my employer and I pa d in ho same amount ho did each year How will this be taxed ANSWER The lump sum payment must be reported on lha tax return as or dnary income However all or part of ihe payment may be transferred to an other regislored pension plan a stored rement savings plan or a I t sharing plan and tax will be deferred I a later year Mark Bullcki