Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project's one bright spot since 1965 has been the Columbia Point Health Center. Organized by Tufts University Medical School with federal funds, the center has provided a variety of high-quality medical and social services. After the clinic's first two years of operation, a survey showed that 91% of the people thought that the medical care available to them was "good" or "very good." Now the 1,130 families are in danger of losing the clinic altogether. Reason: chronic and bitter controversy between professionals in the center and black community activists in an unstable environment...
Tufts has abolished its department of preventive medicine, which originally sponsored the center, and has encouraged patients to look elsewhere for care. Four of the clinic's seven doctors and all of its social workers have quit out of fear and frustration. Though last-minute negotiations have stopped the other professional staffers from following, the center's chances for survival...
Even more damaging has been the political warfare, with Tufts and the medical staff on one side and militant critics from the community, most of them black, on the other. A loosely knit elected body called the Columbia Point Health Association often speaks for the clinic's opposition, though some attacks have come in the form of anonymous leaflets charging incompetence and insensitivity. The controversy reached a crisis point last spring after the then administrator, Leon Bennet-Alder, a frosty Englishman who had little rapport with the neighborhood, tried to cut costs and personnel he considered superfluous. He also...
...Stanford conference was full of other tantalizing phenomena that seem to merit thorough investigation. Olga Worrall, director of the New Life Clinic at the Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Baltimore, told how she had cured warts and emotional disorders, and even helped cancer patients by the laying on of hands. Dr. Robert Bradley, a Denver obstetrician who is also president of the American Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine, reported on the use of hypnotherapy, long ago proven effective in relieving pain and easing childbirth, to speed healing from surgical wounds...
...insisted on a trial. The case seems likely to become a feminist cause célèbre. Women's Liberationists have begun to raise funds for Downer's defense, which is expected to center on women's right to know their own bodies. The clinic, meanwhile, is continuing to challenge the state by doing business as usual...