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With a full-time staff of doctors, nurses, dentists, and social workers, the Clinic needed a full-time director. Dr. Salber, who was then a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and a Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute, said she "wanted to get back into the social realm of medicine." She laughed and added, "I don't ever remember saying, 'Yes, I'll take it.' But somehow I found I had the job, and by August 1967, I was working there full-time...
...were particularly anxious that their four children not grow up in such an atmosphere. When the Harvard School of Public Health offered Dr. Salber's husband a position in 1956, they were able to get their visa and move to the States. A few years after they left the clinic in Durban collapsed...
Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout. Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. It was that kind of attitude that turned the poor to quacks who at least remembered their names and soothed their emotional if not their physical needs. in houses just outside the project. But fewer families in these homes--one-third of them--are without a father. And fewer of the women running these houses are on welfare: 75 per cent of them as compared with nearly 100 per cent in the housing project...
...First seen in this clinic by Dr. Jones when the mohter brought Timothy, age 5, in for a swelling under the arm. She also brought in Susan, 11, and Kathy, 7. Susan is a very intelligent girl and has been chosen for the Latin School Test from her school. She has failed the eye tests and should be wearing glasses. She has very little sight in her left eye. She was referred to the doctor for an eye examination. Kathy also has eye difficulty...
Merely to tell the poor of the existence of the Center, though, was not enough. Some kind of clinic has existed in the area for forty years, but the number of patients seeking care was far below the potential limit. Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout: "Here's the center. Now you take it or leave it." Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. Patients had to wait in line to see a doctor who might or might not be the same one as last time. Examinations might be carried...