Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hassle of checking in at a hospital. So he went to a neat, one-story building with a 40-ft.-high sign bearing a distinctive logo: an upraised hand with a bandage wrapped around its fingers and a first-aid cross on its palm. Once inside the MedStop clinic, Diaz quickly got his cut cleaned, X-rayed and closed up with two stitches. He was able to pay his $67 bill and leave within an hour...
...clinic is part of a rising phenomenon in health care: quick-service, walk-in establishments that critics deride as "medical McDonald's." Now numbering about 150, most of them run for profit by private physicians, these places are known as freestanding emergency clinics, or FECs, because they are physically separate from hospital facilities. FECs appeared in Delaware and Rhode Island in the early and mid-1970s, but now the big growth area is the Sunbelt, particularly Texas...
...Heroin, however used, is a fiercely addictive drug, and treatment centers are receiving an influx of well-dressed, well-to-do men and women who have sorely underestimated it. In Manhattan alone, dozens of such people can be seen early each morning standing in line at the clinic of Greenwich House West, where they are administered methadone in an attempt to wean them from heroin...
...Radcliffe student focused their attention upon the Preterm clinic in Brookline. John insists his tactics were different from those of other anti-abortion activists: "Our interest wasn't in trying to judge or confront the women who were there. But it seems to me there's a difference between the women who are (seeking abortions) and the people who are making money off that. To be able to love the clinic operators involved confronting them with what they were doing. We let them know we had no power, that we were just going to sit there between the machine...
...that leads to abortion, that makes pregnancy a problem, a woman's problem." This thinking led him to try and develop support systems for the women who changed their minds. "We were taking people into our house in the South End, so that anyone who wanted to leave the clinic had a place to stay for a while. (Some of them) later testified at our trial that if we hadn't been there that day they would have gone through with something they really regretted. But I don't think we did enough. We just didn't have enough people...