Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best part about the Monsey Clinic is that you don't ever have to go into the city. Take the Tappan Zee Bridge, towards Spring Valley, right at the second light, your first left and you're there...Here, I'll write...
MONSEY MEDICAL CLINIC stands, rough wood shingled, in a kosher neighborhood which was able to fight the building with principle but not with capital. It is an obscene building, obscene in its newness, obscene because even in its newness and wealth, it brought disgrace to the slum neighborhood. Inside, it smelled like a veterinarian...
...read the magazines, leafed through a photo history of the Clinic, "Monsey Medical Center was founded in...And here is our driver. He transports patients to and from LaGuardia Airport." The picture of the driver was missing. His bus was there, but he was gone. "Probably wrecked," thought he. There was a poster on the wall; it read, "Would you be more careful, if it happened to you?" It had a picture of a young man above the caption, his shirt stuffed with pillows. Thought he, "What can one expect from doctors who look between women's legs...
...expect no more than $300 a month on the staff of a government or university hospital. More typically, he borrows money to buy the minimum of necessary equipment, opens his own office and starts a general practice. He treats as many patients as he can in his "clinic" and holds on to them as long as possible. If he puts a seriously ill patient into a general hospital, the physician almost invariably loses all contact with him-and all income from the case. Of the country's 6,800 general hospitals, only about 50 allow a G.P. to obtain...
Whether in a big city or small town, the country's 69,000 private clinics are remarkably alike. In Tokyo, Dr. Takeshi Ito (not his real name), an internist who calls himself a child specialist, owns and runs a one-room clinic with a cubbyhole dispensary. Ito sees about 60 patients during each long clinic day, visiting a few bedridden patients at home in the afternoon. At night, relaxing with his hi-fi and a bottle of Scotch, Ito wonders aloud whether he can call himself "a true disciple of this noble science of medicine." He provides...