Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Cambridge Health Clinic opened in the Fall of 1977. It is now expanding its services to include pediatric care, capping the community's long effort to bring a full range of health services into the area...
Although the North Cambridge clinic may be one of the most conspicuous successes of grass-roots community organizing for health care in the city, it is only one of ten neighborhood health centers now operating in Cambridge...
These health care teams provide a wide range of medical services. The North Cambridge Clinic, for example, offers physical examinations, obstetrics, gynecology, family planning, nutritional and psychiatric counseling, as well as pediatric services...
...personalized nature of the clinics' health care is apparent in the thoroughness of the physical examinations. For example, Mary Ellen McConaghay, the nurse practitioner at the North Cambridge Clinic, stresses the importance of examining the whole person during a physical. She takes time to study not only the patient's physical health, but also examines social and psychological factors that may affect his physical well-being...
...talks to people about their medical, family and social histories, and tries to discover stressful situations that might be influencing their health. If she suspects that a bad family situation could be causing problems, she may then refer the person to one of the counselors or psychologists on the clinic's health care team. She then finishes the physical with a complete review of bodily systems...