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While they are concerned about the trend toward using E.R.s as general clinics, hospital authorities recognize that it has gone too far to be reversed. "The use of the emergency department," says Dr. Leon Taubenhaus, director of community health services for New York City's Beekman-Downtown Hospital, "is reflective of the inadequacies of medical care within the community the hospital serves." Gail Anderson, whose facility handles 30,000 patients a month, agrees. "Demands on the emergency room are not going to decrease," he says...
Selective Prejudice. New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center has separated its pediatric and psychiatric emergency facilities from its trauma section, installed a 16-bed intensive-care section, an X-ray unit and a computerized laboratory within yards of the emergency entrance. Beekman-Downtown, in the shadow of New York's City Hall, has similar facilities in its newly constructed emergency department, plus an unusual addition: a room with hoses and fans to wash down and aerate those who have been tear-gassed in demonstrations...
William B. Beekman of Eliot House and New York City; Maurice J. Bennett of Mather House and Overland Park, Kansas; Thomas J. Berndt of Cabot Hall and South Bend, Indiana; David W. Boorstein of 18 Ware St. and Washington, D. C.; Sanford F. Borins of Winthrop House and Toronto, Canada...
...Chorus Girl. After serving with the French Resistance during the war, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1950, Gravey returned to the French stage and screen (Harvey, La Ronde) and finally brought his flashing smile and Gable mustache to Broadway as the star of Beekman Place...
...stoned. Spying on one's neighbors is one of the most popular pastimes at U.N. Plaza. "The people across the way have a telescope," says a penthouse dweller. "I presume they are looking." The presumption seems fair. Over cocktails one night in the rooftop restaurant of the neighboring Beekman Towers, Sam and Alyce Simon accidentally discovered that the restaurant commanded a marvelous view of their bedroom...