Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews...
After the first, base-line physical, the workers will be entitled to any and all diagnostic services at one-fifth of cost. The other four-fifths will be paid by the clinic welfare fund. Workers' families, though not entitled to the free physical, will be eligible for the 80% discount on diagnoses. Because some charges will always be levied, doctors are satisfied that the setup will not be abused. Like the company and the union, they believe that in the long run it will save doctors' bills, discourage malingering and actually prevent sickness...
...this minor skirmish grows an increasing uproar that causes the ruin of Dr. Charles Boyer, titular head of the clinic, disrupts the budding romance between Widmark and Bacall, drives most of the inmates into an all-night binge, and sends hysterical John Kerr off to the river, bent on suicide. By this time, moviegoers have difficulty distinguishing the sane from the unbalanced...
...Cobweb (MGM) shows how a well-run psychiatric clinic turns into a bedlam simply because good, greying Dr. Richard Widmark is indifferent to his pouting wife, Gloria Grahame. The fireworks start over a set of new draperies for the patients library. Gloria, embarked on a rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies...
Emergency care when the clinic is closed will be given by a group of specially selected doctors who will be notified by the University switchboard operator. The Hygiene Department will arrange for hospital care, Farnsworth said, but not assume responsibility for expenses. Laboratory service during the summer session will be available at cost...