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Treatment for the Soviet Union's estimated 9 million alcoholics ranges from spending a night in a sobering-up center or a factory clinic to a term in a work camp for those who habitually appear drunk at work or in public. Western- style medical detoxification and counseling is still rare: only two hospitals and 23 out-patient centers serve Moscow, a city of 8.5 million people. According to widespread rumors, one recent patient was Grigory Romanov, Gorbachev's erstwhile competitor for the party leadership. After resigning from the ruling Politburo last July, Romanov, long thought to be a heavy...
...weeks in intensive care, the last of her three surviving septuplets was finally on his way home. But last week, only four days after that seemingly happy occasion, Patti and her husband Sam filed a $3.25 million malpractice suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against both the clinic and the physician who administered the fertility drugs responsible for the conception of Stephen Earl and his six siblings. Said Patti: "Life will never be what it was before we began this treatment...
...Frustacis' suit charges Dr. Jaroslav Marik, 52, and the Tyler Medical Clinic in West Los Angeles with medical malpractice, four wrongful deaths and the loss of earnings as a result of prescribing "excessive and inappropriate dosages" of Pergonal and HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin). The Frustacis also claim that the doctor and clinic failed to monitor Patti's progress on the drugs. Both Marik and the clinic have refused to comment on the allegations...
...deputy director, Dr. Sholem Postel, said that the new clinic should ease the flow of patients in and out of the operating room by allowing surgeons to work in one room while technicians attend to other patients in a second area...
Citing a recent survey in which patients described the waiting areas as cold, impersonal and lacking privacy, Postel said that future renovations will focus on "improving the ambience of the rest of the walk-in clinic...