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THE DALLAS POST/Wednesday, March 19, 1986
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Seminar completed
Girls between the ages of 11 and 18 recently completed a
four-hour babysitting seminar coordinated by Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital's Volunteer Services Department. The
course familiarizes them with proper care of children,
household safety measures and kidnap prevention. Pictured
above, from left, are Nikki Motichka, Shavertown; Diana
Morgan, R.N., instructor; Carla Webb, Harveys Lake;
Jennifer Arrendell, Wilkes-Barre; and Cindy Williams, Wilkes-
Barre.
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Employees honored
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital recently honored 12 employ-
ees who were recognized during the past year as being
““Extra-Special People (ESP’s)’’ in their roles as hospital
employees. The employees, all recipients of a monthly ESP
award in 1985, were hosted at a reception where they were
presented with plaques. Margo Swan, R.N., an instructor in
the Education Department, was given special recognition for
being voted by fellow employees as ‘‘ESP of the Year.’
Pictured above are General Hospital's ‘‘Extra-Special
People’’ of 1985. From leftm seated, Theresa Seravage,
Environmental Services, Plains; Margo Swan, Education
Department, Sweet Valley; Mary Lou Bartz, Social Service,
Pittston; and Ann Ward, Nursing Services, Ashley. Standing,
Bernadine Mikolaichik, Environmental Services, West Pitts-
ton, Emily Bartosewich, Volunteer Services, Edwardsville;
Mike Levandowski, Nursing Services, Nanticoke; June
McNulty, Nursing Services, Harveys Lake; and Jed Drogalis,
Pharmacy, Old Forge. Absent at the time of the photo were
Mildred Jones, Nursing Services, retired, Wilkes-Barre;
Theresa Buckley, Nursing Services, Wilkes-Barre; and Bob
Burns, Jr., Nursing Services, Wilkes-Barre.
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The key to reducing dental expendi-
tures is prevention.
Although prevention is not a new
concept In dentistry, it still works.
Many people, for example, try to
save money on dental bills by not
seeing the dentist until they have
serious problems.
Further information about con-
sumer tips for dental care can be
found in the pamphlet, “How to
Become a Wise Dental Consumer.”
For a free cay write to the Penn-
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Consumer, Post Office Box 3341,
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Health
Elderly
populace
growing
The congressional Office of Tech-
nology Assessment recently
reported that the elderly population
has grown from four percent of the
population of 1900 to more than 11.5
percent in 1983. Their projection is
that the number of those over 65
will grow from today’s 26 million to
39.3 million by 2010, when they will
comprise about 14 percent of the
U.S. population. According to Dairy,
Food and Nutrition Council, as the
number increases so do the nutri-
tional concerns for older Ameri-
cans.
With advancing age, bone health
can often decline due to a variety of
factors, such as insufficient calcium
intake and lack of exercise. How-
ever, one factor that had seemed to
be diminishing as a cause of bone
disease - vitamin-D deficiency-may
be resurfacing as a problem, espe-
cially in the elderly.
Vitamin D, also known as the
‘‘sunshine’”’ vitamin, is essential
for calcium absorption and healthy
bone metabolism. Vitamin D is
available in the food supply. from
The body can make its own
vitamin D when the sun’s ultraviolet
radiation activates a chemcial natu-
rally present in the skin. Over the
course of several days, that chemi-
cal is converted to usable vitamin D
by the liver and kidneys.
Geisinger Medical Center is still
looking for young women with
eating disorders to take part in a
research study. The study will eval-
uate strategies to reduce binge
eating and purging in women ages
13 to 30. The study is directed
toward bulimics, not obese or over-
weight women.
Bulemia, an eating disorder char-
acterized by binge eating and self-
purging, typically begins in late
adolescence when a woman fails to
lose weight after trying several
diets. Bulimics eat large quantities
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Harry G. Glen, M.D. has recently joined the Joseph Pugliese Eye
Clinic in Kingston. Dr. Glen will be practicing general opthalmology
at the Eye Clinic.
Dr. Glen graduated Cum Laude from Franklin and Marshall in
Lancaster. He was appointed to the faculty of the physics
department of Harvard College prior to receiving his medical degree
from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest
University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His externship was
served at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of the Harvard
Medical School. i
Dr. Glen completed his internship at the New Hanover Memorial
Hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina, and his eye surgery
residency at the Georgetown University Center for Sight in
Washington, D.C., where he was chief resident. He was appointed
clinical instructor of opthalmology at West Virginia University.
Dr. Glen is board certified and a diplomat of the American Board
of Opthalmology, a member of the American Academy of Opthal-
mology, a diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners of
the United States of America.
Dr. Glen was associated with the Golden Medical Group and
Memorial General Hospital in Elkins, West Virginia from 1983, until
the time he joined the Eye Clinic.
Dr. Glen will be taking appointments Monday through Saturday in
addition to Wednesday evenings at the Eye Clinic in Kingston, 288-
7405. He will also be taking new patient appointments daily
Monday through Friday at the Eye Clinic's two new satellite
locations in Bloomsburg, 784-8777 and Berwick, 752-1000.
Since the addition of Dr. Glen, the Eye Clinic staff now consists of
seven opthalmologists and three optometrists covering the following
subspecialists: Joseph F. Pugliese, M.D. - Cataract and Lens Implant
Surgery; Thomas G. Sharkey, M.D. - Pediatric and Glaucoma
Surgery; Donald J. Savage, M.D. - Retina - Vitreous Surgery;
Anthony J. Kameen, M.D. - Medical Opthalmology; Larry A.
Litscher, M.D. - Cornea and Refractive Surgery; Richard A. Lane,
M.D. - General Opthalmology; Jay L. Endrusick, O.D., Kurt J.
Moody, O.D., and Gail A. Evans, O.D. - Specialty in Contact Lens
Fittings, Refractions, and Low Visions.
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