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Surgeon Cautions Farmers To Practice Safety
Dr. William Ives talks about farm safety and the need for formers to always be on
their guard.
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LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
The season of busy field work is in
progress. Fanners have a lot more
on their minds than thinking of
safety and health care.
“When we are tired and busy,
we lose our guard with kids and are
prone to do things we wouldn’t do
otherwise if we weren’t in a rush,”
said Dr. William Ives, an Ephrata
surgeon.
He reminds parents that con
stant vigilance is necessary when
working around children.
Ives has treated children who
thank cleaning agents in the miltr
house because it looked like a cup
of milk. Severe esophagus burns
result from drinking cleaning
agents and can leave permanent
damage and even cause A»ath
"You must think of it (cleaning
agent) as a loaded gun,” Ives said.
“It hurts only if it is improperly
handled.”
Ives also warns against potential
tractor and lawn mower injuries.
‘‘When mowing the lawn, a
child should not be in the lawn,”
Ives said erf the danger of flying
objects escaping from beneath the
lawnmower.
Ives knows first-hand how
dangerous tractors can be.
“I almost killed myself on a trac
tor,” he said of his efforts to use a
tractor to pull out a truck that was
stuck. The tractor did raise up but
fortunately for Ives went back into
position instead of flipping.
Ives cautions farmers to always
use a tractor with roll bars.
“My goal is to improve safety
for plain sects in order to save
lives.” said Ives.
Ives grew up on a dairy farm in
Conncticut, but became fascinated
with the Amish when he came to
the county in search of antiques.
During his years of pursuing medi
cal studies, Ives returned to the
area frequently.
When he was younger, Ives intentions were
not on becoming a doctor until he began volun
teer ambulance work while in high school. He
went on to Boston College, where he graduated
magna cum laude. With no financial resources to
pursue a medical degree, Ives enlisted in the
armed forces where he received seven years of
medical training in exchange for his services.
After a two-year residency at the Wilford Hall
USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas,
Ives went on to a civilian residency with Geisin
ger Medical Center in Danville.
In dial area is a large settlement erf Amish, and
Ives lived with an Amish family and even helped
milk cows in the morning.
“The Amish are wonderful people living their
religion. I’ll never forget a busload of them leav
ing to help hurricane victims in die South,” Ives
said.
He also never forgot that many Amish had
medical problems that they lived with because it
was too expensive to have medical care without
insurance.
Ives dream has been to live in an Amish and
Mennonite community and offer surgical care at
affordable prices for those who don’t have insur
ance because of religious reasons.
According to Ives, many insurance plans often
reimburse surgeons at lower than cost fees in
order to pocket the money for its organization.
Doctors often charge non-insurance patients
with higher fees. Ives thinks that’s unfair. He
thinks non-insured patients should get a price
break because there is little paper-work
involved.
Ives recently set up his office at 21N. State St
Ephrata. He has done much of the remodeling
and refinishing wooden furniture himself. But
the medical equipment is the latest according to
Ives.
Although he performs general surgery, Ives
said, “My specialty is colon and rectal.”
Ives is a firm believer in preventable illnesses.
He said that colon and rectal are the most com
mon cancers and are almost always preventable
if caught early in the precancerous stage. He said
that it takes 8 to 10 years for a polyp to turn
cancerous.
For this reason he invested in a flexible endos
copy that works like a wide angle lens when
inserted in the intestine and used to delect polyps
in the colon. According to Ives the procedure is
more reliable, painless, and much shorter in
duration than the typical sigmoidscopy ordered
by physicians.
“It's worthwhile doing exams because cancer
can occur anywhere in the colon rather than in
the bottom part of the intestine, the area limited
to examination by a sigmoidscopy.