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Food is a mockery. Rotten beans-"a special treat"-caused gagging, bloody vomiting and dysentery among 95% of the prisoners on the Isle of Pines. Those who fall sick are usually left to cure themselves, or die. A former Isle of Pines inmate described a typical case: "A man named Yáñez had an attack of epilepsy and fell from the second floor. He remained some ten or twelve hours without attention ... A few hours after he was taken out of there, he died...
Medical science knows how to prevent tuberculosis, and it can cure most cases of the disease. But TB is still far from beaten. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the Public Health Service has just announced that in 1962 there was an actual increase, to almost 55,000, in the number of new cases of active TB reported in the U.S. The major problem remains the necessity for early diagnosis of hidden infection; treatment must be started early to keep the disease from becoming disabling, and to keep patients from unknowingly infecting others around them...
...lively "Establishment" production, and Roger Bowen, a graduate of the Second City company), some of What's Going On nonetheless proved dull. But there were numerous high moments, as when the physician head of the A.M.A. ("the Anti-Medicare Association") outlined his fees; the $500 immediate cure, the $200 long convalescence, and, "for people of limited means, a lingering death...
...gulf with bolts of intellectual lightning. Baldwin cries out in hopelessness and helplessness as he gazes across the gulf. For that gulf cannot be bridged by law alone; the law can furnish a foundation upon which Negroes can build to achieve their rights, but it cannot provide education, or cure poverty, or enforce understanding, or give body to an old-fashioned thing called humanity...
...about students who visit mental patients. Reiss maintains that volunteers who merely strike up friendships with inmates don't accomplish nearly so much as those who make an effort to lead patients back to normal life. Apparently there is a professional dispute over the competence of volunteers to help "cure" the marginally insane. Reiss claims that his experience in the woefully undermanned, underfinanced state hospital system proves that no other group besides volunteers is able to restore patients' confidence in their capacity to live outside. Reiss does not write too clearly, but his description of the status quo in state...