Dr. Ricky Schachter Talks about PERC
Date: 1985.
Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Oral history collection.
Dr. Schachter: The centre has been an exciting success. We now have gone on to being there from eight to eight, we have a nurse coordinator for the daytime and we have a nurse coordinator and we’re very, very up-to-date because we have a shared responsible group who, now with nurses who have been part of the unit and who are married and have children, work one week on and one week off. Now we have RNAs who are particularly good. Nurses and the RNAs are part of the teaching team. They’re the ones that have the best contact. We have had fellows right along, and our fellows have been part of our research. The rotation through the centre has been by people concerned and I started out as being the one that was most responsible with the fellow and then as time went on, Dr. Colin Ramsey joined me and, of course now, Dr. Danny, Dr. Dan Schachter.
Our research has led us from the cost effectiveness of the patient in an ambulatory centre in comparison to those patients in hospital and there really is no doubt that we accomplished the same results at a third the cost. In addition to that, we have been able to look at various modalities, either topical or systemically, as a clinical research tool in the treatment of psoriasis. And lastly, we are accumulating a lot of information that will be of great value as we look at this chronic disease in the Canadian population.