Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's clinic facilities will be available for the first time to the 2200 students of the 1955 Summer School, Dr. Dana, L. Farnsworth, director of the Department of Hygiene, announced yesterday...
...Clinical work at Forsyth will be under the supervision of the infirmary staff, Greep said, but students at the University will continue to receive the major part of their clinical training in the school's own dental clinic, at Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Children's Medical Center...
Orthopedist Robert Collis saw him when he was twelve. Though Collis could do nothing then, he never forgot the boy. Six years later, when he set up a clinic in Dublin, Dr. Collis looked Christy up. Experts decided that at 18 Christy could be taught to speak intelligibly, to walk a little and to use his hands-provided that he would swear off using his left foot. This versatile limb was helping to keep him a cripple. When younger, Christy had got around in a gocart; later he often traveled on his brother's shoulders...
Christy got on the floor at Dr. Collis' new clinic alongside infants and children, and painstakingly practiced the most elementary muscle-training exercises. Dr. Collis, an amateur playwright, also coached Christy in his writing. He learned a simple, straightforward style which helps him to convey a deep understanding of the problems of the cerebral palsied. Now he can talk to strangers and walk across a room. As reward for long forbearance, Christy is allowed to use his left foot for such special tasks as creative writing (his autobiography was written entirely in this...
...least five years away, and meanwhile the student with a toothache is still down in the mouth, as it were. A steady stream of people who want their teeth cleaned or checked prevent him from getting an appointment when he needs one. As a provisional solution, the Dental Clinic might leave some time open each day for only the more serious cases, and if necessary, might refer to outside dentists some of the students with routine problems. This solution would not be so satisfactory as universal false teeth, but it might prevent some unnecessary gnashing and gnawing in the local...