Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki's handsome, modern Children's Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The fisherman is Dr. Arvo Ylppo, passing from his weekend avocation to his lifelong vocation. Ylppo, the only man in Finland to bear the proud title of archiater (chief physician, an honorific designation dating from ancient Greece), is the world's pioneering authority on premature babies...
...minor dental problems are taken." This policy does actually apply to routine restorative dentistry (fillings). We feel we can do more good by referring one student with a long program of restorative dentistry to an outside dentist whom we know and then taking three short restorative cases in the clinic in his stead, than we would if we were to take the long case in the clinic and then refer the three short cases outside. This plan cuts down the number of outside referrals: the number of men who must "trust to a strange dentist in a foreign city...
...present, the Dental Clinic has two dental chairs, a hygienist, and a roentgenologist. At the beginning of the year the Clinic can accept all comers, but a few weeks later only those students with minor dental problems are taken. The rest are told to look elsewhere for help. The average student is hesitant to trust a strange dentist in a foreign city and tends to postpone his dental work indefinitely...
...Harvard volunteers now working at the Union Infirmary will receive Asian Flu innoculations today and tomorrow, the P.B.H. Hospital Committee announced. The shots will be given from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., in the Surgical Clinic of the Hygiene Building, 15 Holyoke...
There was no free room or even bed at the clinic, but a bed was improvised in a room already occupied by a cretinous dwarf. While his family was out at lunch, the patient suffered a hemorrhage. He could not call out, but the friendly dwarf noticed his condition and rushed for help. After desperate efforts, the bleeding was stanched. Thus, writes Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, a hitherto unhonored and still unnamed dwarf probably saved the life of Sigmund Freud...