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stouffville suntribune thursday may 26 2005 7 medical centre changes with community dr don petrie undoubtedly shedatearmayl5 as he and fellow staffers said their farewells to a home away from home at 6131 main st stouffville this sadness would soon turn to gladness when the very next day they welcomed patients to brand new quar ters at 34 civic ave in a few hours 48 years of history had vanished to be reborn in a new building at a new site the stouffville medical centre the name remains the same so does the service the five physicians dr andrew patterson since 1984 dr janice ii 1986 dr gwen sampson 1988 dr jane philpott 1998 and dr petrie 1959 are unchanged as is the office staff of manag er marian hobbs sandy clubine jane dodds janet hume brenda mortson wilda robinson pat richardson christine williamson and eleanor winters dr doug brodie still calls on residents of parkview home and bloomington cove but reports in only occasionally it was after the second world war that dr john button returned to his home town of stouffville to practise medicine following service with the royal canadian air force dr brodie would later become his partner their office was on the north side of main street across from the clock tower together in 1957 they founded the stouffville medical centre at a site on the corner of main and victoria streets the building and equipment were considered state of the art so much so the facility was acclaimed in the canadian medical journal in addition to medical doctors the centre once accommodated a dentist dr bill murphy a part of the building known as the back room contained an xray unit minor surgeries were also performed which included the setting of fractures and applications of plaster casts an optometrist was once accommodated there only two babies were ever born at this location obstetrical deliveries were done at brierbush hospital on main street east the office staff has grown from two to 10 dr petrie the senior physi cian remembers wondering where do i go from here following graduation from the university of toronto a native of clinton ont near goderich hed never heard of stouffville however after reading a story about the towns new medical centre he was convinced it must be a roaming around with jim thomas pretty nice place he and wife jackie have never been sorry d petries experiences dur ing those early years could fill several books he recalls answering a call on the second concession of uxbridge it was midwinter and the roads were icy suddenly his rented vauxhall skidded out of control and rolled over my greatest fear don remembers was that some one might see me crawling out to this day he cant recall who if anyone completed his sidetracked mission of mercy on another occasion he was summoned to a home at musselmans lake to preside over a pending birth i had trouble reaching the mother there were so many pails of hot water he said i think every neighbour must have brought one in he readily admits he has never been one to condone home deliveries the risks are too great something can go wrong so quickly his argument is support ed by the fact we now have a wellequipped hospital only 10 minutes away dr petrie a board mem ber when markham stouffville hospital was first envisioned praises the facili ty and the convenience of a stouffvillebased ambulance service i saturday he provided me a tour of the new medical centre site on the second floor of what was once the stouffville creamery the five physicians have individual offices huge win dows overlook the bowling green and park the waiting room is spacious and com fortable theres plenty of room for files and the wiring is already in place to eventually accom modate the latest in electron ic recordstorage washrooms are suited to the physically challenged an elevator serves the buildings three floors parking a major problem at the former site now pro vides patients easy access jim thomas is a stouffville resident who has written for area newspapers for more 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