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...intelligent idea, something like compelling a man with chronic heart trouble to have a periodic electrocardiogram. The graph might be depressing, but it might make urban anxieties more susceptible to solution. It might also provide voters with a new standard: if the Q.L.I, fell below, say 75%, they might decide to throw out a mayor or a Governor or a President...
...serve the entire community; health organizations will provide comprehensive facilities and financing for medical care; medical practice itself will be reorganized as groups of specialists become coordinated, as nurses and nonprofessional health workers take over routine hospital treatments and even diagnoses; the strategy of disease treatment will change as chronic, addictive, and social psychological diseases are identified; and new methods of medical research will apply technological advances to health care while reevaluating patient-doctor relationships. Much of this will take place in he next few years...
...used to chronic nausea after a while...
When Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo became Premier last August after one of Italy's chronic Cabinet imbroglios, a cynical Roman politician ventured a prediction: "Colombo can't last through autumn. This may be precisely why he will." What he meant was that after five governments in 27 months, warring factions in the four-party governing coalition might let things ride for a while. If Colombo, too, were to topple, the result might be expensive and uncertain national elections...
Mike deals mostly with children. One small client, born with half a nose, learned to face the world without excessive self-consciousness. An asthmatic child whose parents had once been afraid to let him exercise developed enough self-assurance to control his asthma attacks without medicine, and a chronic bedwetter learned to keep dry. Among adults, a professor was taught to ride a bike so that he could go out with his son, and a frail teacher, taunted by students in his rough high school, learned self-defense. So far, Mike has worked with neurotics. But he is becoming interested...