Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that many West Side blacks now can avoid Chicago's publicly supported Cook County Hospital, which is notoriously crowded. Local residents account for 80% of Garfield's patients and 90% of Bethany's. They have also taken advantage of the Bethany Medical Center, an outpatient clinic housed in a former grocery store. The center provides non-emergency and dental care for 1,600 people a month. The average cost of treatment, including tests and Xrays...
Intensive Care. It all began, according to Harris, "more as a joke than anything else." After pondering the plight of hangover victims, Harris last year took over an abandoned medical laboratory next to his clinic. He installed a whirlpool bath and a steam cabinet and set up treatment rooms with such names as Heavenly Gates No. 1, Heavenly Gates No. 2, and Intensive Care. Then he hired a host of angels, or hostesses, and passed out cards. Hangover Heaven has been overcrowded ever since...
Some heavy drinkers have taken to booking appointments in advance, anticipating trouble after parties or holidays. The clinic's busiest days are Sunday and Monday. Clients (30% of whom are women) are enthusiastic: "It really works," says Mrs. Billie Clarke of Atlanta. "The first time I went in there I would have paid for a mercy killing. Cost is no object-thank goodness there's something for relief for us drunks...
Before going into business, Harris foresightedly patented the recipe for his special bracers and trademarked the clinic's name. Now he is building a second Hangover Heaven in downtown Atlanta and negotiating for an airport site. He also is planning spots in such hangover-producing cities as New Orleans, St. Louis, Las Vegas and Miami...
...musical beds ends when one of the doctors finds his wife (Dyan Cannon) in bed with a colleague (George Gaynes). With somewhat more glee than is usual on such occasions, he shoots them both with a single bullet. The ensuing scandal threatens the philandering physicians and the large private clinic they operate when they are not busy bedding nurses, students or any female under the qualifying age for Medicare...