Word: clinic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diem government ruled Hoaimy lightly. There was a small garrison of civil-defense troops and a grammar school. But Hoaimy had no clinic, no high school, no agricultural assistance, no real return for taxes, and no official attention that was more than passing. Then last November, after Diem's overthrow, the Communist Viet Cong arrived. They drove off the garrison, and when the new government made a feeble effort to recapture Hoaimy, the Viet Cong ambushed and whipped an army battalion...
...forces in West Germany to help, declared: "I am ashamed of being a doctor after seeing what is going on here." At week's end, two doctors and a technician were charged with the sabotage of a cable supplying electricity for the X-ray room at a Brussels clinic...
...their country. They accused the doctors of having fallen into the clutches of Moral ReArmament, argued that morals are not the province of physicians or priests but of psychiatrists. Indeed, Moral ReArmament may have been an indirect influence behind the morality petition; two doctors in a Stockholm clinic who helped initiate it are supporters of the movement. But, said one physician, "Things are pretty bad, and it does not matter who says...
...minutes after death, Donor Luna's right forearm was removed, flushed with a clot-preventing solution, packed in ice and rushed to the clinic. There a team of surgeons worked all night with Gilbert; after ten hours Sailor Luna had a new hand...
Break from a Break. When he relayed his suicidal thoughts to his doctors, they hustled him into Manhattan's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic for the summer. Hodgins had hardly gotten out when he found himself back in a hospital-this time with a broken hip, the result of a bathroom fall. It proved a lucky break. Although immobile once more, he was suffering at last from a socially approved ailment: a broken hip, he points out, is perfectly respectable, whereas a stroke or a breakdown is "loaded with connotations...