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The Southern Israelit
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
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VOL. L1V
Our 54th Year
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 7, 1978
London meeting set
by David Landau
JERUSALEM, (JTA)-A
London meeting this month
between Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan and Egyptian Foreign
Minister Mohammed Kaamel,
with Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance, appeared to be a virtual
certainty this week. Highly placed
government sources indicated that
Dayan would go to London even
though Israel has not yet given its
formal assent to the meeting.
They explained that Israel's
official silence on the matter
stemmed from Premier Menachem
Begin???s unwillingness to commit
himself formally to the meeting
until he is satisfied that the
Egyptian peace plan, submitted to
Vice President Walter Mondale by
President Anwar Sadat at their
meeting in Alexandria Monday,
does not contain ???preconditions."
The sources here assume that
there are, in fact, no preconditions
in the Egyptian plan and expect the
London meeting to take place on
or about July 17. The meeting was
one of the primary objectives of
Mondak???s visit* to kraal aad
Egypt over last Weekend. It will
mark the resumption of official
Israeli-Egyptian contacts on the
ministerial level for the first time
since Sadat broke off peace talks in
January.
It was disclosed Tuesday,
however, that Shimon Peres,
kader of the opposition Labor
Alignment, will meet with Sadat in
Vknna, Austria, this weekend.
The occasion will be a conference
of the Socialist International
leadership to which both Peres
No Atlantans
With Mondale , ^
Twenty-five American Jewish
leaders accompanied Vice
President Mondale on his trip to
Israel. No Atlantans were listed
among them.
and Sadat have been invited by
Austrian Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky.
Peres called on Begin at his
home here over the weekend and
the Premier ???did not object??? to the
meeting, sources close to Peres
said. The two men agreed to keep it
secret, however, until Kreisky
announced the meeting officially
in Vienna Monday night. Peres
and Sadat mix for several hours in
Salzburg last February.
It was understood here that
Begin is not too pleased with the
prospect of a second Peres-Sadat
meeting, partly because his own
feelers for a meeting with Sadat
have been rebuffed and partly
because the meeting in Vienna will
be regarded by the world as the
actual resumption of direct
contacts between Israel and Egypt.
Peres is understood to have had
his own doubts, mainly because he
wanted to avoid the impression
that he was chalknging the
prerogatives of the democratically
elected government. But he
decided in the end that it was his
duty as a statesman to seize the
opportunity to meet with the
Egyptian leader, sources here said.
There has been no authoritative
explanation here as to why
London was selected as the venue
for the meeting of the Israeli and
Egyptian foreign ministers. The
seketion was made by the U.S.,
ostensibly for the convenience of
Vance who will be returning from
the Western economic summit
meeting in Bonn next week. But.
there is speculation here that it is
Vance's purpose to involve British
Prime Minister James Callaghan
anMForeign Secretary Dr.TDavid
Owen in a concerted effort to
persuade Israel and Egypt to
resume the peace process.
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Dr. Cowen:???AII my patients...important people.
by Lisa Redaction
While his mother wasn't
watching, five-year-old Johnny
fumbled through , the kitchen
cabinets and found a bottle of
cleaning fluid resembling ginger
ale. He drank the whole thing,
became ill and screamed for his
mother.
The nearest hospital was quite a
distance away, but close to home
was another alternative???the Toco
Hills Emergency Center.
The center, in an area heavily
populated by Jewish families,
offers a new concept in Atlanta. It
seems hard to believe that you can
drive up to the familiar Toco Hills
Shopping Center and find an
emergency room in the middle of
the parking lot.
Dr. Frederick B. Cowen and his
partner, Dr. Selwyn Hartley,
opened the center in May. Dr.
Cowen is a member of Beth Jacob
Synagogue, and his children
attend Hebrew Academy. His wife,
Elizabeth, is a caseworker at the
Jewish Family and Children's
Bureau.
The Emergency Center is
something new for Atlanta???a
private practice of emergency
medicine.
???I saw the need for a free
standing emergency room in
Atlanta. I knew Atlanta didn't
need any more hospitals but it did
need more emergency rooms,??? Dr.
Cowen said.
Because of religious preferences.
Dr. Cowen does not work on
Saturdays except in emergencies.
How is Dr. Cowen???s emergency
room different from those located
in a hospital?
???First of all, we have very little
overhead, so we have cheaper
prices, at kast 25-30 percent
cheaper. You see, we don???t have
any inpatient beds and the
overhead which goes with it.
???Secondly, we are privately
owned and we don't depend on
other services that a hospital has
for income. Our success depends
on the quality of our emergency
room alone, so we have to provide
good service in that one area,??? Dr.
Cowen said. ''
Cowen added that so far
patients have not had long waits
which are normal for most
emergency rooms.
Dr. Cowen sees all types of
patients at Toco Hills Emergency
Center.
???There are people who come in
with sore throats, lacerations and
fractures. Presently, all the
patients are walk-in but we are
planning ambulance service in the
near future. People come in with
anything from wanting their blood
pressure taken to a real
emergency," Dr. Cowen said.
Dr. Cowen and Dr. Hartley are
part of a new specialty called
???emergency room" physicians.
Dr. Cowen was born in Quincy,
Mass. He was graduated from
Tufts Medical School in 1972,
served in the Navy two years and in
August 1975 became director of
emergency services at an Atlanta
community hospital. He has also
been an instructor for basic and
advanced cardiac life support
sponsored by the Georgia Heart
Association.
The two doctors decided to open
the center when they visited similar
facilities which are now cropping
up throughout the country.
???Besides its primary function,
the emergency center can provide
other services to the community,
such as industrial medicine,
insurance physicals, school and
camp physicals. We are seeing 24-
25 patients a day,??? he said.
Does he ever recommend that a
patient or an emergency case go
straight to the hospital instead of
coming to the emergency center?
???If someone is having a heart
attack, he should go straight to the
hospital. Or if someone is in a car
accident and gets really crunched,
he should go to a hospital. We can
perform the emergency cart, but it
might be dangerous to transfer the
patient to a hospital bed later. I
send two or three patients a week
to the hospital," Dr. Cowen noted.
How did he decide to get into
emergency medicine?
See F.mcrfeflcy, Page 21.