Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walking at times with crutches or a cane. The disease forced him to drop out of school for two years. After one operation, he was erroneously told he would never walk again, but he regained the use of his legs after treatment as a charity patient at the Mayo clinic...
Many addicts themselves are fed up with the programs, Dole and Nyswander contend, largely because of the rigidity of the bureaucratic rules and the indifference and sometimes contempt of clinic staffs. The result: "The great majority of heroin addicts remain on the streets, and the programs have lost their ability to attract them to treatment...
...Nyswander, a psychiatrist, are still convinced that properly supervised methadone treatment is an eminently sound idea. But they admit there has been a "nearly universal reaction against the concept of substituting one [addictive] drug for another." There is further opposition in cities from neighborhood groups complaining that the methadone clinics bring an influx of dangerous addicts. The program has also been tarnished by disclosures that some clinic operators and physicians have collected scandalously high Medicaid fees for doing little more than giving addicts a daily dose of methadone mixed with fruit juice (actual cost...
...motto--is not a real remedy for women who lack the luxury of a one-to-one, doctor-patient relationship. Only one of the film's sections addresses the concerns of black and minority women who are too poor to obtain health care anywhere but at an underequipped understaffed clinic. The black women interviewed complain that many of their friends have had their "tubes tied" without being told that the operation was irreversible, and that when black women appear in hospital clinics, no matter how diverse their medical symptoms, they are usually assumed to be prostitutes and packed...
Henderson suffered multiple bruises and abrasions as a result of the incident, but was released that same evening after being treated in the University Health Services clinic...