Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personalized nature of the clinics' health care is apparent in the thoroughness of the physical examinations. For example, Mary Ellen McConaghay, the nurse practitioner at the North Cambridge Clinic, stresses the importance of examining the whole person during a physical. She takes time to study not only the patient's physical health, but also examines social and psychological factors that may affect his physical well-being...
After taking basic bodily measures like blood pressure, weight and height, and doing urinalysis and blood tests, she talks to people about their medical, family and social histories, and tries to discover stressful situations that might be influencing their health. If she suspects that a bad family situation could be causing problems, she may then refer the person to one of the counselors or psychologists on the clinic's health care team. She then finishes the physical with a complete review of bodily systems...
...personalized nature of physical examinations points out something else the clinics stress: health maintenance. By encouraging simple, routine check-ups and by charging only what people can pay, the clinics hope to break people of the costly habit of seeking medical attention only when their illnesses require extensive care...
...Cambridge Neighborhood Health Centers are not without problems. Most important, many of them are severely underutilized. The clinics are a relatively new phenomenon and many neighborhood residents still think they must go to a hospital for good health care. Other residents believe the clinics are only for the poor. To combat these false beliefs, the clinics and community groups are starting publicity campaigns to spread the word about the available services to all Cambridge residents...
Besides being a new phenomenon, Cambridge's small, neighborhood-based health clinics are important in another way. The clinic system bucks the medical industry's tendency to create large, capital-intensive hospital centers...