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Rape crisis centers usually have counselors on call 24 hours a day. They stay with the victim during the medical exam and assist her with the police report. Reporting the rape is important both to put repeat offenders in jail and for therapy. "It's getting back," says Gail Abarbanel, director of the Santa Monica (Calif.) Rape Treatment Center. "To discourage women from reporting is a bad message that implies the victim had a role in the rape...
Brazelton began devising the exam some 30 years ago to solve a problem that bothered him: babies available for adoption were being kept in institutions until the age of four months because doctors were reluctant to certify that any younger infant was fully normal. "Four months is just too long to deprive anybody of a new baby," Brazelton recalls, with a trace of a Texas drawl that has survived his years in Boston. "That led me to say, 'Well, gosh, anybody can tell whether a new baby's O.K. or not. What is it we're going...
...folksy sort of test, carried out with such implements as a pocket flash light, an orange rubber ball, a paper clip, some popcorn kernels. The exam starts when the baby is asleep, and it gauges the infant's reactions to a series of stimuli, including light in the eyes, the sound of rattling, a scratch on the foot: 20 reflexes and 26 behavioral responses in all. After 20 minutes or so, a Brazeltonized baby is wide awake and none too happy about all the testing...
...started a family. By day Clark worked as an insurance adjuster. At night he resumed his studies at Loyola, but his grades were so lackluster that the dean urged him to go full time or quit. Clark left Loyola without graduating and studied for the bar exam on his own. On the second try, he passed. He went home to Oxnard, "opened up my own firm and waited for the phone to ring." It did, and Clark became quite successful as an attorney. He was also active in the family ranching business...
...jammed daily by more than 1,500 outpatients, who crowd the hallways for hours. Three ophthalmologists work simultaneously in the one examining room, while waiting patients stand by and watch. There is a stock Japanese complaint about visiting a hospital: "A three-hour wait for a three-minute exam...