Word: clinical
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Free Services. An institution as much as a newspaper, La Prensa provides a free medical clinic (23 doctors) and free legal advice (six lawyers) for its staff and the people of Buenos Aires. It runs an excellent free library, a free music school (100 students). It also maintains its own delivery service, a hangover from 19th Century days of uncertain mails. Though few ask such service nowadays, La Prensa will still deliver in Argentina any letter addressed in care of its stately headquarters across the street from the presidential palace...
...Minn, last week, the unhappy parents of four-year-old Carolyn Joan Purcell found the "miracle" they were looking for. The little Georgia girl, threatened a fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 15) with the terrible alternatives of certain death or blindness by surgery, had been rushed to the famed Mayo Clinic by Atlanta Shriners. The Mayo doctors had pushed waiting patients aside to consider Carolyn Joan's case, and, after a painstaking ten-hour examination, had pronounced their verdict: Carolyn Joan was free of cancer, needed no operation...
...week's end, a group of Atlanta Masons arranged for Carolyn Joan to be flown to the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for further examination...
From all over India's province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering...
...These people are illiterate," said Dr. Dass, as he prepared to go home and rest over the weekend for his next clinic. "If they can have enough sight to go about their work, it is miracle enough for them. That is all I try to give them...