Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works with 17 to 23 year olds, who are mainly drug offenders. "It's kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC examination...
...wants an abortion, the UHS will not handle it, but can make the arrangements. The UHS works on an "ad hoc" basis for a couple of which only one member is Harvard-affiliated, Wacker says. For most women who want abortions, the University recommends that they go to small clinics such as the Crittenden Clinic in Boston...
...shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...
...Mirror. When each lab representative showed up at the clinic to make his pitch, the conversation was jotted down by a secretary; some of the sessions were photographed through a one-way mirror. The material was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...
...rich-quick schemes could not have succeeded without the cooperation of venal clinic owners, many of them nonphysicians. The favorite ploy was to disguise the kickbacks as rent; that is, the clinic owners would sublease their office space to the labs-which often did not use it. The more patients the doctor sent to the labs, the more rent he would collect. One lab representative told a disguised investigator: "If the volume goes up ten times, rent could go up ten times." A clinic could collect $1,000 a month by renting a cubbyhole containing only a chair. TIME Correspondent...