Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
...thinks. For the past six years, Dr. Pressly has had two doctors working for him on salary. He has a hard time keeping them because they prefer the "easier life" of the big-city specialist. He has two nurses, a maid and bookkeeper. His brick-veneer, well-equipped clinic building, which started out with seven rooms...
...country doctors work together in a clinic, says Pressly, both doctors and patients are better off. The doctors can take time off for vacations or for refresher courses; the patients get more thorough care. A general practitioner, he thinks, can take care of 85% of the people who are sick; only about 15% need specialists. In his early days, 90% of his practice was home calls, 10% office. Now the percentage is nearly reversed. Says he: "People realize they get more for their money in a clinic or a doctor's office...
...under Hygiene Department scrutiny. Perhaps this inability to find specific flaws in the University's medical program is an indication that the generalized complaints are unjustified. Or perhaps it merely results from the fact that students just do not have enough knowledge of the problems of running a clinic to criticize competently the current medical setup...
...Love Against Hate. Dr. Karl makes penetrating generalizations on psychiatry, and teaches other psychiatrists.* The two brothers, philosopher and organizer, work together well, with little evidence of what psychiatrists call "sibling rivalry" (jealousy among brothers & sisters). Dr. Karl and their father, Dr. Charles Frederick ("Dr. C.F."), founded the Menninger Clinic in 1920. Dr. C.F., who started as a horse-&-buggy doctor, got the idea from the Mayos. Now a gentle man of 86, he teaches mineralogy and seashell-collecting as one of the treatments for Menninger patients, supervises the planting of trees and flowers on the 34-acre grounds...