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...reports of acupuncture's use in mainland China last summer, however, such practices have boomed. Now they may be ended entirely, at least in New York. Concerned over acupuncture's administration by unlicensed practitioners, the New York State Department of Education has already shut down a Manhattan clinic devoted to the ancient art. Last week, it ordered Dr. Ng and a dozen colleagues to close their consulting and treatment rooms...
...Manhattan's Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, clinic workers include teen-agers like Kathy Hull, 17, who gets course credits at her Brooklyn high school for volunteering. Chocolate cookies are passed around at the rap sessions that patients attend before they are examined and given contraceptives; boy friends are invited to the meetings and may even be present at the pelvic examinations if their girl friends agree. Said one who did: "He held my hand, and I was glad he cared enough to be there...
Recently I had a memorable encounter with the Harvard Dental Clinic and think the quality of service available there under the capable hands of Doctor Faciano should be brought to the attention of Harvard students. Summer emergency care at the clinic is provided from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. On Thursday, July 27, I walked into the clinic at 3:30 p.m. with a severe toothache. The doctor was still there but would not even look at my tooth. The next afternoon I arrived at 1:00 p.m., the dentist at 1:15. The next ten minutes he spent...
...Harvard Dental Clinic, it seems, specializes in giving students half the needed dental care, but they fail to measure up to offering real emergency service. And worse yet, they begin work they cannot complete because of lack of background and equipment!? Their attitude towar students seems to be one of "please don't expect us to be concerned with your problem, if you want adequate care get the hell out of our office and go elsewhere." Alumad Sharkas Graduate Student, NELL
Fast. In medical circles, both St. Louis' Barnes Hospital and Minnesota's Mayo Clinic have a reputation for liberal use of shock therapy; thus the fact that Eagleton was treated by shock at those institutions does not necessarily indicate that his depression was severe. Shock is often preferred by politicians and others in the public eye because it is faster than psychiatric counseling (also cheaper: about $55 a treatment). The American Psychiatric Association claims that electroconvulsive therapy is effective in at least 90% of the depression cases in which it is carefully used, "sometimes in a matter...