Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since it opened in April, 1968, the Cambridgeport Medical Center has run up an unpaid bill of $15,000 for laboratory services provided by the Cambridge City Hospital and City Councillor Thomas W. Danehy wanted to know why the City Hospital didn't stop such services to the clinic...
...should we continue to provide services to hippie patients? This is what I call a deadbeat account," Danehy said. For some 20 minutes, he grilled Dr. James Hartgering, the City's Commissioner of Health, Hospitals, and Welfare, about the unpaid bills and the operation of the free clinic...
Hartgering replied that he did not know the details of the clinic's operation, that the City Hospital's only connection with the clinic was to provide lab services for it, and that he was trying to work out an arrangement for payment of the bills...
...group of Harvard and M.I.T. physicians founded the clinic-located at 10 Mt, Auburn St-in order to provide medical services to those who would otherwise not get them-either because they could not afford them. or because they did not feel welcome in most hospitals...
...There was a definite understanding that the lab bills were negotiable. We are willing to pay the real cost of the services." the clinic's director. Dr. Joseph H. Brenner. an M.I.T. staff psychiatrist, said in an interview last night. Although the City Hospital was charging commercial rates for the lab services, he said, the hospital had generally co-operated with the clinic...