Word: rostock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lucky. They had a county hospital and six rural "ambulatoriums'' (clinics). In the county of Gardelegen, not a single private practitioner was left for 55,000 people, and they had only one county hospital - understaffed because many hospital doctors have joined the exodus to the West. In Rostock, one remaining eye specialist, a 72-year-old man, keeps a ten-hour-a-day schedule. The flow of fleeing physicians has reached a flood stage of 800 or more a year, and shows no signs of subsiding. Remaining doctors, especially the relatively few in private practice, are grossly overworked...
Other farmers were subjected to days of verbal bombardment from loudspeaker trucks parked outside their houses. Gustav Pohl, 60, a farmer near Rostock, had resisted collectivization for five years, but gave in fortnight ago to the agitators. "They told me I could keep one cow and a few chickens and pigs for me and my family. I asked what they meant to give me for my land. They said they did not have any money right now . . ." Quietly, Pohl sent his daughter off to "visit" relatives in West Berlin for Easter, then packed a few things in a net shopping...