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...have changes at the medical centers been confined to curriculum. Students at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine are forcing a reorganization of the lying-in clinic system at the university's Billings Hospital. Patients at the clinic are now segregated according to their ability to pay, leaving one wing white and the other black. The school is planning to integrate them. Northwestern University is initiating a two-year program to prepare members of minority groups for entrance to medical school. Conducted in Chicago's South Side ghetto rather than the leafy Evanston campus...
Financial Obstacles. Few appreciate the situation better than Michael Palmer, 29, a resident at Boston City Hospital. More interested in treating a variety of wounds and ailments than in research or specialization, Palmer helped set up the Cincinnati Free Clinic while serving a two-year hitch with the U.S. Public Health Service. Eventually he would like to participate in a prepaid group practice in the inner city, though he realizes that financial obstacles may well force him to shelve his ambition and settle in the suburbs. "Nothing in this area is going to be ready for me by the time...
...sons, contributed to the breakup of his marriage. Finally, the pressure proved too much for him. In late January, he bought space in the county newspaper to announce that at the age of 53 he was closing down his practice. Three weeks later, he became a 9-to-5 clinic physician at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va. "I couldn't go on like I was," he recalls. "Emotionally it was the most difficult time of my life...
...vagueness, violation of the right to privacy, and the denial of individual rights. Wisconsin's law is under a cloud; no final ruling has yet been issued on the constitutional question, but a U.S. district court has forbidden the prosecution of a Madison gynecologist for operating an abortion clinic. California law is also the subject of a court test as pro-and anti-abortion forces battle over an appellate court decision overturning part of the state's liberalized...
...conventional contraceptives has shown, however, many couples do not seem willing or able to use them consistently or properly. Easily available abortion may even carry with it the risk of promoting still more sexual irresponsibility, the attitude that a lost gamble in bed will be easily remedied on a clinic table. Yet if freedom to get an abortion virtually on demand is to become as common in this country as it is in Japan and parts of Europe, then a correlative sense of responsibility is necessary. Research and public education concerning contraception must be promoted even more vigorously than they...