Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Milwaukee, nine black inner-city bartenders have completed an experimental program designed to give them elementary counseling skills and teach them how to show emotionally sick barflies the way to psychiatric clinics. The course of study, sponsored by the Mental Health Association, included discussions with social workers plus field trips to a storefront mental-health clinic and a center for rehabilitating alcoholics. According to the report, the program actually worked...
Weight Watchers' success is the more remarkable because it is based so largely on talk. The company's high-protein diet for years was essentially the same one that anybody could get free from a New York City Health department obesity clinic merely by walking in and asking for it - as Mrs. Nidetch herself did in the beginning. Relying on frozen dinners to lose weight is an old bit of dieters' advice, and Weight Watchers dinners are a bit more expensive (990 to $1.65) than those of regular food processors, but the company claims that its dinners...
...sits for a while in a public expression of outrage. Police and firemen are so nervous about the popularity of monument perching that last week they scrambled onto the dome of the Pantheon to rescue Liza Barkley, 19, a tourist from Philadelphia. Liza was hustled off to a psychiatric clinic before she could explain, through an interpreter, that she was an architecture student and had climbed up a scaffolding to inspect the structure of the dome...
...several substances that may accumulate as "stones" in the gall bladder, cholesterol is the most common culprit. Because doctors have not known how to dissolve such stones, the usual remedy has been surgery-an estimated 350,000 operations annually in the U.S. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now report in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in four cases out of seven, doses of a natural body chemical have succeeded in dissolving cholesterol gallstones. This type of stone, it appears, forms when bile (a digestive substance secreted in the liver and stored in the gall bladder...
...forced in the future to hear the common "two aspirins and lots of liquid" jargon that we have in the past, then it is time for our tuition "package" that includes "health care" to become optional. I would much rather pay more and be treated in a clinic that gives you the feeling that your ailment has been properly diagnosed, than to sit for two hours in a place that only seems to succeed in allowing you to catch the other viruses floating around from other patients who are also waiting...