Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...
Oklahoma's tall, beaming Governor Robert Samuel Kerr, former oilman, called a "clinic" last week to study possible new industrial crops for southwestern farms. In three days of talk, more than 700 experts and farmers got many new perspectives. Among them...
Said he, at long last: "Got married." High Jinks. In Highwood, Ill., Mayor Charles Portilia returned from the Mayo Clinic, found that Acting Mayor Fidel Ghini had fired the police chief, appointed another, allowed gambling at a recreation club and twice fined the club $200 for the privilege. Explained ousted Alderman Ghini: "The money was for a new fire engine." The Strenuous Life. In Detroit...
...Rennie told last week's meeting that the clinic has definitely proved its value to NPs. Of its 200 patients (about one-third from the Army, only 14 actual combat veterans), 104 are improved (some became perfectly well after only one one-hour psychiatric interview), many are still under treatment; a very few had to be sent to mental hospitals. (Some of these have since been discharged, now hold jobs...
...white-haired, 40-year-old Dr. Thomas Alexander Gumming Rennie. Dr. Rennie realized that discharged and rejected NPs need psychiatric care, without it might develop real mental illness. He also realized that there was no place where they could get such help. So last August he started a psychiatric clinic at the hospital, manned one night a week by twelve psychiatrists, a psychologist, seven social workers. The clinic gives psychiatric interviews, group treatment, occupational therapy, arranges social gatherings, dates, helps men get jobs...