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However, one such clinic in Shreveport, La., survived for almost four years under the very able directorship of Dr. W.P. Butler. A letter written in 1920 from the Shreveport Commissioner of Public Safety to the Louisiana State Board of Health states...
Frenchmen have also been stirred by the jailing in Belgium of respected Gynecologist Willy Peers for performing 300 abortions in his Namur clinic. The Belgians are even more aroused. A Peers defense committee has collected 200,000 signatures defending the "lay saint," as he is called, and 1,000 Belgians, including 300 doctors, have admitted that they have arranged, performed or undergone abortions...
...Blond, bearded and neat, Ed Starkins, 26, has lived in Vancouver for three years. He works for $100 a week at a medical clinic, writing health manuals. A graduate of San Diego State, he left for Canada after learning that the FBI had called at his home one day while he was out (he had ignored two draft notices). Starkins likes Canada so much he plans to stay. "I wouldn't go back," he says, "except to visit my family and friends. The problem is not just the Viet Nam War. It is the whole social structure that...
...fact, a whole year passed without an episode. Finally, Slayton and Dr. Charles Berry, then the astronauts' chief physician, felt sufficiently encouraged to begin a series of complex cardiological tests, including the insertion of two tiny probes into Slayton's heart by specialists at the Mayo Clinic...
...abortion. Attorney Margie Pitts Hames, who argued the case for Mary Doe, points out that this can be a critical factor in poor rural areas with only one doctor. That specific question was not before him, but Justice Blackmun, a former (1950-59) resident counsel at the Mayo Clinic, obviously has faith in the physician's traditional discretion. "Despite the presence of rascals in the medical profession, as in all others," he said, "we trust that most physicians are 'good...