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...Jail Clinic. Prounion physicians like Harness believe that organizing is an idea whose tune has come. Though unions still represent only a small fraction of the country's more than 300,000 practicing physicians, their strength is increasing inexorably. The A.M. A., which is frankly alarmed by the trend, estimates that anywhere from 25,000 to 30,000 doctors now pay dues to unions of various types. Most of them belong to the American Federation of Physicians and Dentists, which was founded last January with 7,500 members and now has a national membership...
...Organizations in Chicago and other cities have also played a major role in raising the incomes of interns from as little as $5,000-6,000 a year to more than $13,000 at some hospitals. Other organizations take an altruistic stance. Harness's union, which staffs a clinic in a county jail, is also seeking to improve patient care...
Almost everyone Jane met was willing to tell her how to live. "Hey, did anyone see three index cards with the Groovy Orgasm speech notes on them?" somebody yelled at a sex clinic. She visited a fisherperson on the West Coast, a Tupperware lady in New England, various militants and separatists, a rich assortment of discontented wives, and a few who were not. Not many of the reports are reassuring. The writer's own sister, who is married and likes it that way, said, "What can anyone say of me other than 'Isn't she wonderful...
...reject him. His offense: he insists on dressing up in his mother's clothes and playing dolls with his sister rather than joining his brother in outdoor games. His lot is not a happy one, but it is common enough among the patients at a unique psychiatric clinic at U.C.L.A., the Gender Identity Research Treatment Program...
Unlike tomboyish girls, a few of whom Green has also studied, "sissy" boys are quickly marked out for social rejection. All the little boys at the clinic have suffered harassment; one seven-year-old had his shirt ripped off by classmates who wanted to see if he had female breasts. To ease a boy's anxiety about being a misfit, Green concentrates on changing his behavior through weekly therapy. Under the direction of a male therapist, the patients are divided into small groups and encouraged to assume traditional male roles in their play...