Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third-year students from the medical school, part of that school's PBH committee (The Law School has one, too) made up a traveling clinic that tours the settlement houses for periodic check-ups on the kids. The plan was launched in the fall of 1950. By Christmas, the would-be-doctors will have visited 14 settlement houses. The examinations are completely advisory in nature, but so far have disclosed that 30 percent of those examined had something physically wrong with them that needed, and consequently got, the attention of a doctor...
...dinner engagement at St. Francis Hospital in nearby Jersey City, and when he appeared, holding a handkerchief to his face, Sister Amalia, the superintendent, suggested that he go to the clinic. Brother Salesius protested at first that it was merely a bump, and his injuries amounted to nothing. Then he told about the attack, but he asked her not to tell the three members of his order who were traveling with him, for fear they might worry unduly about...
Indignation committees stormed Restrepo's office, but he ducked out and pushed ahead with his plan. Barrio Antioquia's schools were closed; one became a barracks for 40 cops, another was selected for a prophylactic clinic. In block after block, red lights appeared over open doors as the first 1,000 girls moved in. Jukeboxes, protected by wrought-iron frames, competed with noisy drunken laughter...
...year-old professor entered the clinic Wednesday after suffering a mild heart attack the previous day. His physician is expected to make a definite diagnosis of Demos' condition today...
...mothers three days a week, and gave homework assignments to the fathers. On Sept. 1, the school started regular classes in a borrowed building. The mothers took turns conducting the play activities and the classes, backed up by Mrs. Covey's early morning instruction periods. The clinic's teaching methods (visual aids, constant repetition of sounds, the vibrations of a piano) have been copied by the children themselves. One little boy taught his sister, who has normal hearing, to make the sound "oo" by demonstrating it. Another clinic pupil, a girl, has her baby brother practicing...