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...years earlier, the beatnik takeover of the Bay City's North Beach area had produced some fine poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, and Novelist Jack Kerouac. From the Haight, though, little emerged to ennoble the spirit-except, perhaps, the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, which is the subject of this book...
...clinic was chronically short of funds and a steady target for the sneers of San Francisco's medical establishment. From the beginning, its chief was a young M.D. named David Smith who, as the book notes, "identified with the young . . . shared their frustration and disillusionment and their Rousseauan faith in the virtue of natural...
...clinic offered more than therapy for victims of the drug salads consumed daily. It had doctors and nurses able to help out with psychiatric cases, general internal-medicine problems, venereal diseases. For the doctors there were educational fringe benefits as well, for they could observe a stunning variety of examples of drug abuse. Smith himself, sympathizer though he was, came to "see that the community contained the seeds of its own destruction in its refusal to accept social and individual controls and in its acceptance of unbridled experimentation...
Fast Operator. Since then, the operation has been refined and perfected. The Cleveland Clinic alone has done nearly 2,000 bypass grafts; institutions like Stanford University Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital have performed hundreds. Few surgeons are more adept at the operation than Effler, whose team does at least half a dozen...
...agree that revascularization, like all heart surgery, is risky. Though Cleveland Clinic lost only four of the 255 patients (1.6%) in replumbing procedures performed in February and March of this year, overall in-hospital mortality in such cases...