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...Baltimore school's huge main clinic, with its array of 64 dental chairs, advanced students now treat hundreds' of patients (at nominal fees) every day under the guidance of their teachers. When the new $9,000,000 building is completed in 1968, says Dr. Salley, "we plan to have freshmen deal with patients, learn to apply their basic knowledge before the end of their first year. They will continue to have basic science courses through all four years, so that clinic and classroom will always be meshed together...
...born two years later, seemed to spell disaster to Bamangwato witch doctors. But Ruth-often wearing a silk blouse and tight white pants-moved through the mud-hut villages dispensing good will, wiping blood from injured herdsmen with a lace handkerchief, and fighting for seven years to build a clinic. Eventually she became known as Mwa Rona (Our Mother), and the antiwhite fears of the tribesmen faded...
...production schedules, decided how many workers would be needed to do the job. Profits were pegged only to what their stores could actually sell, and worker piece-rate bonuses were accordingly awarded for quality. To get a better reading of consumer tastes, Bolshevichka set up its own shoppers' clinic. Within six months, both profits and quality had soared and, of critical interest to the Kremlin, inventories were sharply reduced: the turnover of Bolshevichka and Mayak goods in the retail stores was speeded up by some three weeks...
...require them, consistent with their creed and mores." Having jealously opposed any intrusion into the doctor's domain or infringement of his right to collect fees in the Depression 1930s, the A.M.A. now decided that birth-control guidance should be equally available to private and clinic patients, regardless of whether they "obtain their medical care through private physicians or community-supported health services...
Washington's judges have the option of hospitalizing chronic drunks. Yet no such referral has occurred since 1962, for the simple reason that the law requires "adequate treatment facilities"-something Congress has not provided. The city's rehabilitation clinic has facilities only for outpatients; the city's general hospital has beds for only 30 acute alcoholics. As a result, Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer...