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| Medical clinic closes saccieaebennnte easiest
as doc leaves town.

. THE:: " VALLEYVIEW. : i ‘The two. partners. prac: nic? s last. day. of business: ;
- Medical ‘Clinic. is: closing , ‘tice part time: so it is pos: is Aug. 20. Hsu is leaving: .
after 10, years: because“one™ sible for each to. take. time because | her. husband “has”
“of its two! -pariners | is leav- Off; leaving 9 one to cov taken. a job. in Peterbor-
ing town... for the: other:

» Dry ‘Chia-Wen. Hiu, who,

“is moving: to. Peterborough, e
Ontario . ini eafly: ‘fall,'says.: for
it was ‘closé:to impossible - replacemett ‘continued :
to:find.a replacement. - .- Segaid Asa. = HS: difficult 1 to-find doctors’.
‘We 's just: so hard-to find: Hsu- is “one. of the’ few. ~for-urban -family : practices,
<a doctor: to come, workin a" ‘Canadian: trained: general. ‘let, alone, more; rural Joca::
tural“ area,” “Hsu. said practitioners “in | Terrace.~ tions,” .
“Canadian: graduates will” “She ‘received ‘her training © - It's hard’ to. do, ‘that and .
_cliterally-not want-to" speak. -at UBC; which’. included ~. it is even’ harder, to- find.

with And, with foreign | “stints in the: northwest. -be- "people: who.want to. work |
fore Valleyview ‘opened. ° part | lime)!" he said.

“She says’ her departure Although. Hsu's _depar--

. ; s m ‘and: the: ‘inability - to. find a: ture: “won't: affect GP. ser-
“Hsu ‘and: her ‘partner: De replacement will, ‘not put: a . vices. in Terrace, Appleton

Anita: Bariloski-Chkipova, - large strain.on GP services = said-the inability: to: find a -
-who'is moving to. the’ Park: “here, but that the -possibil- "Teplacement, does sound. a _
-Ave,, Medical Clinic; ‘did: ity of--people--not being © warning bell.’
-try” to’convince. one. South’ ‘able*to’ Tine - “up a. family. “It's: really. as heads up. 2
African doctor’ to: ‘move ‘to: doctor-in the: area: is Bet -All” is. not: well.. We've
“Tertace.:: we “ting close. been’ very ‘lucky.i im Terrace
, “But: she wanted to hold... “It's: very. ‘serious: in: the”. ‘in-terms: of manpower.- But
"oui for'the Okanagan. Even:- lower mainland with or- you: have--to tealize that -
‘though there: wag fot ‘a: “job: ‘phaned patients who: don’t; more’ of . us. are.’ getting.
_ for her: there, ‘she: was: will: “have a family déctor,” “Hsu older and’ that, means there |

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