Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floated outside Apollo 9 on his space walk 160 miles above the earth, he was overwhelmed by emotion. "I completely lost my identity as an American astronaut," he says. "I felt a part of everyone and everything sweeping past me below." Now he spends long hours at a Houston clinic for drug addicts, takes part in a volunteer telephone-counseling service for troubled youngsters, and is involved in a local chapter of practitioners of transcendental meditation...
Most of the country's major airlines subject their pilots to examinations with more rigorous standards than the FAA'S. American Airlines' testing includes brain-wave monitoring and screening for "prediabetic" and heart problems. Pan American, Trans-World Airlines and United are similarly strict. The Mayo Clinic includes extensive psychological testing in its preemployment examinations of Northwest Airlines pilots. The pilots' contracts with the companies expressly prohibit any information gained through the airlines' medical tests from being passed...
...treats and studies the complete spectrum of children's blood disorders. The foundation treats those with sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease largely limited to blacks; supervises a home-care program for hemophiliacs; and conducts drug-treatment programs for children with leukemia. It also maintains an outpatient clinic for Cooley's anemia that currently provides ongoing therapy to approximately 55 victims of this ethnic ailment...
Grim Talk. Counseling is another important part of the care provided by the C.B.F. Dr. Virginia Canale, director of the transfusion clinic, tries to acquaint her patients with the nature of their disease, explaining it in terms that they can understand. A social worker and nurse meet regularly with the children's parents to help them adjust to the physical and psychological difficulties caused by the disease...
...arrived with the intervention of Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), a city-wide agency that has replaced Tufts as the administrator of federal funds for the center. The group is heavily staffed with blacks and is determined to rally Columbia Point residents in support of the clinic. ABCD is trying to enforce some of the efficiency measures started by Bennet-Alder but is imposing them gradually. It has also hired a black as acting administrator and persuaded the remaining staffers to stay for a while. The agency, says ABCD Director Bob Coard, "is not about to retreat from involvement...