Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor dispute at Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) spilled over into the streets of downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, as a chanting, sign-carrying contingent of 40 local unionists staged a two-hour "informational picket" at HCHP's Kenmore Center clinic...
...picketers, members of Service Employees International Union Local 285, work in lower-wage occupations on the clinic's non-medical support staff. They demanded a wage increase of 6 percent and a 30-minute reduction in their eight and one-half hour work day. Workers also picketed at HCHP's smaller Cambridge Center yesterday...
...audience of 500 specialists listened closely, Fyodorov, speaking in a thick Russian accent, described how his clinic does 20 to 25 operations a day. Fyodorov has performed more than 3,000. In 96% of his patients with moderate myopia, Fyodorov claimed to have improved vision to somewhere between 20/15 and 20/40, obviating the need for glasses. In patients with more severe myopia, he reported an Fyodorov 84% success rate. The surgeon declared that he had never lost an eye and had encountered complications in only three cases (two patients with excessive scarring and one with infection...
...There is a Hollywood drug scene," says John Randell, director of a drug-abuse clinic for the wealthy in Century City. "But it is not just Hollywood. It is IBM and 3M. Wherever you find affluence, you'll find drug abuse." According to Randell, neither the recession nor the drug-related troubles of the famous have lessened the demand for coke. "The economy has had no effect," says Randell. "If anything, it makes using drugs more desirous, since people want to escape the pressure of the bad times." Incidents like the death of Belushi can have a perverse effect...
...trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin's patented mixture of slapstick and " strong emotions is administered...