Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vail, Colo. Bending over to adjust the bindings on her rented skis, she ruptured her Achilles tendon and wound up in a cast for two months. Another girl suffered from annoying numbness in her legs whenever she skied. Dr. Arthur Ellison, a Williamstown, Mass., skier-orthopedist who runs a clinic at Vermont's Haystack Mountain, found that her tight ski pants were pressing on her leg nerves. He cured her "stretch-pants palsy" by making her wear a larger size...
Before the end of the year, U.S. insomniacs will spend more than $170 million and gobble hundreds of millions of pills in their search for sleep. But will they really sleep better? Not always, says Dr. William Dement, head of Stanford University's Sleep Disorders Clinic. Last week Dement reported that sleeping pills can actually keep some people awake and cause emotional problems that may be worse than insomnia...
...client, have no way of checking on the legitimacy of these services, or the reputation of the clinics to which they refer you. They make all arrangements for you, not telling you even the name of the clinic until they have received payment...
...program, who see it as a first step rather than an ultimate solution, are confident that they can make the plan work. Their confidence seems justified. The PHS currently has seven times as many applications as it has vacancies in its commissioned officer corps, and enough hospital and clinic facilities, if used efficiently, to meet existing needs...
...Kansas has heeded Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, a searing prison critic (The Crime of Punishment), and set up a felon's "diagnostic center" near the Menninger Clinic in Topeka. The state now sends all prison-bound felons to the center for exhaustive tests by four full-time psychiatrists and numerous other experts. Result: half these men get probation. Among all such Kansas probationers, the failure rate has dropped to 25%, much less than in other states. Congress has approved a similar $15 million center in New York City to screen federal defendants after arrest...