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When complaints do become specific, they usually refer to a particular experience, when a diagnosis was wrong or a student was in extreme danger. The Health Services is invariably able to discuss the difficulty in presise detail and explain the problem quite reasonably. But as Dr. Farnsworth points out, anyone is likely to blame even his family doctor for an error, and the frame of mind induced by a communal medical setup only tends to exaggerate the anger...
...dramatic advances and development of facilities are in a sense the climax to a long-range program that began with the appointment of Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, then of M.I.T., as director (and as Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene) eleven years ago. Farnsworth led the long search for funds for a new building, planned it carefully, and has shaped the very-much-expanded facilities in his own image. Dr. Farnsworth himself is an institution. The recipient of about as many honorary degrees as anyone else at Harvard, he is widely regarded as the "dean" of American college health care...
...think that if a fair number of students were using marijuana, we wouldn't know about it," Dean Watson said. Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan told the City Council that the drug situation was exaggerated and that no serious problem existed. And Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, chief of the University Health Services, echoed Dean Watson, although both professed their concern about what traffic there...
...distressing, Farnsworth said, that there is no information readily available to people outside the medical profession on the harmful effects of drugs. While the Health Services will shy away from "anything that seems like a spy system," he said, it will do everything possible to curtail the use of drugs...
...present situation, Farnsworth explained, indicates the need for college authorities to "remain calm" in the face of drug problems. "The best thing we can do to protect the student is to help him learn to protect himself," he concluded