Status of Women committee  That is absolutely correct.

Status of Women committee  I don't know, because it's so obvious to you, it's obvious to me too. I really thought that if we went to the U.S. and stayed there for a year, we would be able to come back with all of that information, with all of the latest research in eating disorders, and do it at home. I

Status of Women committee  Well, it's kind of hard; you have to do it over many years. But in terms of our success rate, among the patients who came in and who had failed in a one-on-one, generally the failure rate was about 65%. Those are the people we saw. It wasn't those who came in initially and wanted

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure, because as I mentioned before, it was depending on who was sitting in the seat. In one case they would send patients through and the next time they would say they've got all kinds of facilities in Ontario—

Status of Women committee  That's correct, yes. We started off where we did have a fair number of patients, and then it changed and there were no more. No matter what we did, no matter how.... I asked if it would make a difference if we lowered our price. We talk about prices; you want to know the cost of

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Well, that would have been nice, and definitely the Shouldice Hospital is there and it's been accepted for many years. Even Homewood is under somewhat the same kind of program as what Shouldice is under, and I really thought that we could be, but we couldn't, so that's when I wen

Status of Women committee  OHIP.

Status of Women committee  Well, they just said, “No, we're not covering you.” Really, the interesting thing is that if you were in a hospital setting, then they would cover it. If you were in an individual setting, they won't. But these patients are definitely not going to go into a hospital.

Status of Women committee  I think the important thing is that we save the lives of patients. Because, as Dr. Woodside said when he had that candlelight vigil some years ago, we lost 18,000 patients in a year. I went to the various people in the hospitals who were there and I asked if they would send pat

Status of Women committee  My ideal thing would be that I would set up clinics apart from the hospital, generally out in the woods somewhere. In fact, we have drawings of the ideal building, where they seat how many, who's there, whether it's the psychiatrist or psychologist, and generally there are three

Status of Women committee  We obtained all the information from Dr. Paul Garfinkel, who was the leading authority back in the early 1980s. First, I should say that we had two psychiatrists, psychologists, art therapists, and nutritionists, all these people, as part of our program. We had 30 people, so th

Status of Women committee  But I went through the clinical stuff. Every week I drove to Buffalo and sat there while they went through an hour and a half with all the staff, because it's multidisciplinary and everybody's going to talk about the patient who's there: the psychiatrist, the psychologist, and th

Status of Women committee  Thank you for allowing me to put on this presentation. I have two daughters who suffered from eating disorders. When I realized the severity of this disorder, I felt that I had to get involved to help these patients get good care in a timely fashion. With that in mind, I approa