Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth control and fertility service are made. Last year, the Health Department made 2,721 referrals altogether and visited 2,644 homes at least once. Cambridge Visiting Nurses reaches about 200 parental cases a year from Cambridge City Hospital and is referred prenatal cases from Boston Lying In's Clinic. The executive director made a strong statement in favor of a forthright approach to birth control. Even in cases not specifically prenatal (about 800), the visiting nurse will initiate discussion on contraceptive if appropriate. She mentioned the obstacle posed by some Catholic doctors who refuse to prescribe effective methods...
...emergency room led to the death of a 15-year-old girl last November. Sent to Cook County Hospital with a physician's note that read "Poss. acute appendicitis," the girl, mistakenly diagnosed as having VD, was given a penicillin shot and instructed to seek help at a clinic. She died of gangrenous appendicitis within 24 hours...
DeFord is treated at a city clinic, then rents a cheap room just off the Bowery, where he plans to wait until the doctors tell him he can go home. He is surrounded by winos, hoods and drug pushers, but he manages to maintain his integrity. Amidst defeat and depravity, he nurtures his memories of the country's reach and grandeur, of the days he spent hunting and fishing, and of his pride in earning his living with his hands. It is Author Shetzline's singular achievement that he keeps DeFord and his memories uncorrupted...
Merely to tell the poor of the existence of the Center, though, was not enough. Some kind of clinic has existed in the area for forty years, but the number of patients seeking care was far below the potential limit. Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout: "Here's the center. Now you take it or leave it." Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. Patients had to wait in line to see a doctor who might or might not be the same one as last time. Examinations might be carried...
Harriet Baxter, who graduated from Pembroke and holds an M.S.S. from Smith, is a psychiatric social worker at McLean Hospital in Belmont. In 1966, she worked in a British out-patient psychiatric clinic while her husband was a Guggenheim fellow at Cambridge...