Word: clinically
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Doctors warn that it is not an aphrodisiac or a "sex pill." But a drug developed by Burroughs Wellcome to treat depression does have an interesting side effect: it increases sexual desire. Of 60 test subjects who took Wellbutrin at San Diego's Crenshaw Clinic, 63% had heightened libidos, a study reports this week. The effects of the drug, which is not on the market, were felt only by the sexually dysfunctional and were not always welcome. "One woman was orgasmic for the first time," says Researcher Theresa Crenshaw. "She said she was assailed by sexual feelings...
...treated like a woman," sighs Susan Arcidiacono with pleasure. A ritzy health club? An elegant hair salon? Not at all. The swanky suburban San Diego setup belongs to Women's Health Centers of America and is a model of a hot '80s health-care fashion: the women's clinic...
Drawing on feminist insights, the best of the new clinics seek to provide total basic care. They are a kind of one-stop body shop where women can receive a gynecological exam or mammogram; treatment for premenstrual syndrome or osteoporosis; advice on nutrition, weight loss and cosmetic surgery; even counseling for psychological problems. "We have head-to-toe health care," exults Penny Wise Budoff, a family practitioner (and the best-selling author of No More Hot Flashes and Other Good News). Her clinic in Bethpage, N.Y., a former Howard Johnson's restaurant painted lilac with yellow columns, has a staff...
...centers also use the lures of convenience and comfort. Clinics remain open in the evenings and on weekends; checkups are often booked for an hour instead of the usual 30 minutes. "Doctors shouldn't be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a Pap smear in seven minutes," says Dr. Janet Schwartz of Women's Health Centers. The three W.H.C. clinics in California take pains to ameliorate the two banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center...
Critics wonder whether the new clinics are offering better care or merely fancy wrapping. Some question the automatic faith in female staffs. "I'm skeptical," says Feminist Judy Norsigian, co-author of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, who notes that because male and female physicians receive identical educations, "the women often come out the same." Others point out that the new centers are geared to affluent women, neglecting the old and the poor. And there is concern about whether the clinics are overly accommodating. Leah Dills, 32, who has visited Woman's Care Center in San Francisco at least eight...