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...labor dispute at Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) spilled over into the streets of downtown Boston yesterday afternoon, as a chanting, sign-carrying contingent of 40 local unionists staged a two-hour "informational picket" at HCHP's Kenmore Center clinic...
...audience of 500 specialists listened closely, Fyodorov, speaking in a thick Russian accent, described how his clinic does 20 to 25 operations a day. Fyodorov has performed more than 3,000. In 96% of his patients with moderate myopia, Fyodorov claimed to have improved vision to somewhere between 20/15 and 20/40, obviating the need for glasses. In patients with more severe myopia, he reported an Fyodorov 84% success rate. The surgeon declared that he had never lost an eye and had encountered complications in only three cases (two patients with excessive scarring and one with infection...
...There is a Hollywood drug scene," says John Randell, director of a drug-abuse clinic for the wealthy in Century City. "But it is not just Hollywood. It is IBM and 3M. Wherever you find affluence, you'll find drug abuse." According to Randell, neither the recession nor the drug-related troubles of the famous have lessened the demand for coke. "The economy has had no effect," says Randell. "If anything, it makes using drugs more desirous, since people want to escape the pressure of the bad times." Incidents like the death of Belushi can have a perverse effect...
...trash of kings and sultans, knights and janissaries. The last George graduates from shoving around middle-class furniture; now he repossesses the tables and chairs of ghetto blacks who default on their payments. In his off time, he accompanies the dying Mrs. Glazer to a Mexican Laetrile clinic where Elkin's patented mixture of slapstick and " strong emotions is administered...
...analysis of pre-verbal children and emphasized the purposeful care of parents and teachers. Applying in practice what she asserted on paper (in eight eloquent volumes), the self-effacing Freud established the first day nursery in Vienna and trained a generation of followers at the celebrated Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in England. She habitually shunned publicity and deferred to the parent whom she nursed in life and steadfastly defended in death. "I didn't go to college," she once remarked, "but I had a wonderful father...