Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly tireless Chalmers was soon seeing 60 patients a day in his clinic and also doing a daily stint of surgery at the hospital in Prosser, 15 miles away. He started a medical program at Benton City's two schools, and somehow, between his office hours and his daily commuting, found time to make a good number of house calls. A soft-spoken but decisive man who had just finished five years of public-health work in Alaska, Chalmers made friends quickly. Said one businessman: "He's that rare type who worries more about his patients than about...
Unfortunately, the businessman was too correct for comfort. Early last month, Chalmers, 46, called on Contractor Richard Cecil, a moving spirit in Benton City's clinic guild, and told him that the clinic was going broke. Reason: his patients paid their bills slowly, and Chalmers' long working days gave him no time for sending out reminders. Although he averaged $3,200 a month on paper, his patients were actually paying him only $1,200, some $1,000 less than he needed to meet his expenses...
...debts. At the first meeting, he raised over $600. Later meetings and a benefit supper got the total up to $1,200. Meanwhile, patients began to send in their checks−so well, at first, that Dr. Chalmers was able to pay back a $400 loan the clinic guild had given...
...wards of Children's Medical Center in Boston last week, or making regular visits to the outpatient clinic, were 200 youngsters suffering from a mysterious disease with a forbidding name: cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. At Babies Hospital in Manhattan there were seven in beds and 80 outpatients; attending Los Angeles' Childrens Hospital were 150 known or suspected cases. Across the country are thousands of other victims, most of them probably unrecognized. For to most doctors, pancreatic fibrosis (also known as mucoviscidosis) is a "new" disease...
...indefinite) terms. In this way, he dropped Dr. Flournoy. Also, doctors shall make quarterly reports, setting forth their reasons for granting permission in each case. Finally, Pugin decreed, all candidates for abortion must be observed for an indefinite period, at the canton's mental hospital and psychiatric clinic...