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Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients
Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients

Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients

Date6/6/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cancer victim: Irene Pirocchi yesterday urged that heroin be made available to ease the pain of terminally ill patients.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0025860F
      Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
      Tumor specialist: Dr. Rudy Falk, beside ba machine that helps destroy cancer cells with heat, treats 30 to 50 terminally ill patients day at his private clinic
      Bull, Ron
      4/16/1990
      Go ahead: Leukemia victim Maryse Madore of Oshawa got Ronald McDonald's help to open the model of the house named for him that will help families be near young cancer patients
      Go ahead: Leukemia victim Maryse Madore of Oshawa got Ronald McDonald's help to open the model of the house named for him that will help families be near young cancer patients
      Dutton, Don
      4/10/1981
      Derek Humphry: Co-founder of 11,000-member Hemlock Society, which believes in the use of euthanasia for terminally or incurably ill people
      Derek Humphry: Co-founder of 11,000-member Hemlock Society, which believes in the use of euthanasia for terminally or incurably ill people
      Griffin, Doug
      4/2/1985
      Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill
      Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill
      Spremo, Boris
      8/2/1972
      Battling cancer: Melissa Duval, 4, shown here after cancer treatment in 1987, is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients
      Battling cancer: Melissa Duval, 4, shown here after cancer treatment in 1987, is in Greece to be treated by a doctor who claims his serum has cured patients
      Duval, Melissa
      1/13/1989
      Better Medicine: Dr. John Doyle is using this NEC portable computer along with the Abbott Laboratories infusion pump to develop a better system of dispensing drug mixtures to seriously ill patients. The work combines his engineering degree with his traini
      Better Medicine: Dr. John Doyle is using this NEC portable computer along with the Abbott Laboratories infusion pump to develop a better system of dispensing drug mixtures to seriously ill patients. The work combines his engineering degree with his traini
      Loek, Dick
      10/5/1988
      A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
      A plant doctor who makes house calls is 25-year-old Brian Murphy, who sometimes takes a terminally wilting patient back to his apartment for round-the-clock care among the 60 plants already in residence
      Loek, Dick
      5/29/1974
      Dr. Ian Dube, director of the first cancer cytogenetics program in Canada, and senior technologist Sandra Johnson, look at lab results from leukemia patients.
      Dr. Ian Dube, director of the first cancer cytogenetics program in Canada, and senior technologist Sandra Johnson, look at lab results from leukemia patients.
      Lennon, Frank
      1/16/1987
      Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
      Safety first: Dr. Donato Spensieri of Wood-bridge wants to improve safety at the Kipling, Islington and Weston Rd. Intersections along Highway 7, which he claims have taken more lives to traffic accidents than he has lost patients to cancer over the past 15 years.
      Dunlop, Al
      4/9/1992
      Toronto Maple Leafs made their annual Christmas visit to Hospital for Sick Children yesterday, autographing pictures and playing with patients
      Toronto Maple Leafs made their annual Christmas visit to Hospital for Sick Children yesterday, autographing pictures and playing with patients
      Bull, Ron
      12/12/1977
      On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
      On the Job: Dr. Mory Gutman saw patients as usual at his office in the Toronto General Hospital yesterday because all the doctors at the clinic had decided earlier to put their patients first and boycott the doctors' walkout.
      Bull, Ron
      4/27/1982
      Gift to Prince from soldiers, Patients at Christie street hospital made this table and tray for the Prince of Wales
      Gift to Prince from soldiers, Patients at Christie street hospital made this table and tray for the Prince of Wales
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/9/1927