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...says. "Eighty-five percent of the people had nothing wrong with them physically. They were simply troubled." In 1961 Dr. Giorgi moved to Los Angeles for a year's residency in psychiatry at Los Angeles Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in turn taking over the center's clinic and establishing its comprehensive home-care program-and a movie-star-studded practice of her own. In July 1965, she volunteered to examine Watts children who were beginning the Office of Economic Opportunity's Head Start program, and was appalled...
...Your Clinic Will Burn." Furious, Dr. Giorgi stormed into the OEO's offices in Washington with a plan for a medical center outlined on a piece of note paper. OEO bought the idea, and within a year, through the University of Southern California's medical school, had funded the new Watts Health Center. Built on land leased from Los Angeles for $1 a year, the center was opened last month. At the dedication ceremony, a young firebrand of Watts's Black Power movement introduced Dr. Giorgi to the crowd. As she mounted the podium, the young...
...Puerto Ricans will probably win a majority on the Council," says Molino, "and SNAP serves the Spanish-speaking people in many other ways, too. We operate a family service clinic, a credit union, and we founded SEMCO...
Last June, still working as research director emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Page spent a full day working on project reports. That evening, he suddenly felt as if he had a fire in his chest, "much stronger than heartburn," he recalls. "The pain tends to disappear when you hold your breath hard and bear down. I knew I'd had a heart attack. In the four months since then, I've experienced first hand the problems that I'd been studying for years...
...three years old, the nonprofit foundation handles up to 350 children in each eleven-week term. Most have been referred by Chicago area schools, psychologists or social agencies. School officials report that children who take the training often double their rate of learning; Footlik claims that the clinic so far has not failed to improve the reading ability of any child who sticks with the drills long enough. No one yet knows, however, whether the bullying technique has harmful long-range effects on personality development. James Weddell, director of Purdue University's Achievement Center for Children, says some...