Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Henry Jordan and Leonard Levitz, co-founders of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Diet Clinic, most popular diets are only temporarily effective in changing one's pattern of eating. The menu may turn out to be less important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...
...pink snake in her plant. Dunlop, incredulous, asked how long it was, three feet, two, one? It turned out to be an inchworm. Another New York housewife recently expended the last half-gallon of gas in the family car to rush her ailing plant to the nearest cactus clinic. "It's stopped growing," she cried, "and the leaves keep falling off. I've tried everything, from Mozart to peat moss. What am I doing wrong'" Replied the resident physician: "Nothing, madam, it's a plastic plant...
...asking: "What is it that I must do?" In this mood she meets an unnamed psychiatrist and executes a textbook case of transference. When, in less than three years, her analyst dies too, Sarah attempts suicide (as she had done more than once before), then withdraws to a Zurich clinic to write this account of her relationship with...
...health care industry, particularly women in low and mid-level jobs. Although the program's focus is on women, it is tied in with the specific problem of ambulatory health care--any service that is provided outside of a hospital, whether in a doctor's office, in a clinic, or in the home, and including such things as preventitive care, diagnosis, and follow...
Careful Screening. Though the first modern medically supervised sex-change operation took place in Europe in 1930, transexual surgery did not attract wide notice until the transformation of a former G.I. named George Jorgensen to Christine* in 1952. In 1966 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened its Gender Identity Clinic, having the year before performed its first complete transexual operation. University hospitals at Minnesota, Stanford, Northwestern, Arkansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia and a few others soon followed suit...