Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before being appointed to his job last year, Hayes, 48, was for eight years director of a hypertension clinic in Hershey, Pa. There he observed the baneful effects of salt and learned to his frustration that patients ordered by their doctors to go on low-salt diets were unable to comply, even if they tried. Says he, "I might tell the Pennsylvania Dutch, for instance, that they could have their sauerkraut if they watched their sodium from other foods." But, he notes, they couldn't tell how much was in the other foods...
...then it is time to go to the clinic. The doctor says not to eat after midnight on the night before. Not to drink either. He tells you that the clinic opens at 7:30 and usually gets crowded by mid-morning, so you set the alarm for 6, and you go to bed early and lie there most of the night, thinking about waking up and finding blood on the sheets or having cancer and dying or dying on the way to the subway tomorrow morning...
...needs more bad news--the President said today the Grenadians--the Grenadians!--are spreading subversion throughout our very own continent the Supreme Court is a drug abuse outpatient clinic, crime is up. I'm down...
Audrey Cunningham, spokesman for the Committee on Save Our Clinic, told the council that the emergency rooms would not provide the familiarity between staff and patients and the preventative care that the clinics--which handle over 75,000 visits a year...
...Bethany Hays, 32, typifies the new style. At home in Houston, she changes the diapers of her infant son Josh. It is a kind of busman's holiday. Hays is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of its lactation clinic. On a typical night call at the clinic, she delivers as many as four new arrivals. She and Husband Ray, 38, a psychologist, have successfully blended hectic careers and child care by unrelenting planning. When she began her residency seven years ago, Hays was already mentally preparing for her first...