Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reject him. His offense: he insists on dressing up in his mother's clothes and playing dolls with his sister rather than joining his brother in outdoor games. His lot is not a happy one, but it is common enough among the patients at a unique psychiatric clinic at U.C.L.A., the Gender Identity Research Treatment Program...
Unlike tomboyish girls, a few of whom Green has also studied, "sissy" boys are quickly marked out for social rejection. All the little boys at the clinic have suffered harassment; one seven-year-old had his shirt ripped off by classmates who wanted to see if he had female breasts. To ease a boy's anxiety about being a misfit, Green concentrates on changing his behavior through weekly therapy. Under the direction of a male therapist, the patients are divided into small groups and encouraged to assume traditional male roles in their play...
...last year tried a unique approach. It bought an abandoned movie theater a few miles from the hospital, also in the ghetto area, refurbished it and added examination and waiting rooms. At the same time the board launched a search for two doctors willing to staff the theater-turned-clinic. Conditions: Cabrini would guarantee salaries of $3,000 per month for each doctor in return for referrals to Cabrini...
...Filipino internists accepted the offer last May. Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
...also proved a good start for the two clinic doctors. "I didn't think I'd ever be able to have a practice because I didn't have the money to put it together," says 30-year-old Henry Carag. Though they charge less than most doctors for their services ($8 for the first visit, $6 thereafter), the two men are beginning to pay their own way. When the clinic opened in May, the hospital was paying each of them a full $3,000-a-month subsidy to fulfill the guarantee; it is now down...