Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1990, UHS scrapped its first-floor walk-in clinic, which allowed any student who wanted treatment to come in and get it, in favor of a new rapid access system of appointments. The walk-in system had caused patients to wait for hours...
Students have mixed views on rapid access. But many say the system could be worse, none more so than seniors who can still remember the constant chaos of the old walk-in clinic...
Similar health services at other universities have considered options in addition to rapid access. Officials at Yale say they are considering moving regular clinic hours ahead so a full staff will be able to greet students who come after dinner...
Other lessons included schemes for infiltrating abortion clinics. In one scenario, a man and a woman posing as husband and wife make an appointment and then stage a dialogue in the waiting area, one pleading with the other not to go through with the procedure; witnesses to this scene are usually rattled and discomfited. In another, a protester uses a borrowed urine sample that indicates she is pregnant, and then goes through all the steps at a clinic up to reclining on the operating table. Her goal is not only to disrupt but also to gather information about clinic routines...
Such omissions do not much comfort pro-choice advocates or those responsible for the approximately 1,500 increasingly beleaguered abortion clinics in the U.S."They've changed their tactics -- more harassment, more stalking, more violence," says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Fund for the Feminist Majority, who last Friday took part in a pro-choice demonstration at a Melbourne church surrounded by about 150 clinic defenders. One statement from a boot camp graduate aptly underscored the persistence of those who took the course. He remarked, "You can draw a lot of comparisons between the fight over abortion and slavery...