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...result of the population rise is heavy pressure for birth control, and early in Bootstrap the government unabashedly provided free contraceptives from 160 dispensaries. Under attack from the dominant Roman Catholic Church, the regime dropped word to clinic doctors not to push the practice. But postnatal sterilizations, at the request of the mother, are common; one estimate is that a fifth of all women 15 to 40 have been sterilized...
...wits. After finally wooing Denny into the hospital and extracting the bone, Pediatrician Roth decided to focus on adolescents. He got help from his old training school, Children's Hospital in Boston, where Dr. James Roswell Gallagher set up the country's first teen-age clinic in 1952, now has four hospital floors serving 600 patients a month. With Gallagher's advice. Roth set up the second such clinic at the Kaiser Medical Center, where the case load has leaped from 25 patients a month to 300. Other clinics have since been started in Philadelphia, Denver...
...nine-man Kaiser clinic, the aim is to give patients "what every teen-ager wants from everybody-respect and honesty." The waiting room, filled with teenagers' fashion and hobby magazines, is designed to make patients feel they are "in the right place." Visits by parents are discouraged; the patient is on his own, alone with his own doctor...
Biggest single age group in the clinic's range from eleven to 21 is made up of baffled, questioning 14-year-olds, who seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...
...work with them." His satisfactions come from such cases as that of the 15-year-old girl who fell into despair when her twelve-year-old sister began menstruating before she did. Her turn would come. Roth gently reassured her. Recently, her face beaming, she collared him at the clinic. "Dr. Roth," she yelled. "I've had it!" That, says he, was as rewarding as delivering a new baby...