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Other compelling, if controversial, research has long pursued an entirely different cause of OCD: streptococcal infection. As long ago as the 17th century, British physician Thomas Sydenham first noticed a link between childhood strep and the later onset of a tic condition that became known as Sydenham's chorea. Modern researchers who saw a link between tics and OCD began wondering if, in some cases, strep might be involved with both...
Translated by Jonathan Sydenham Viking...
...citizens, many low-income working people are not fully insured. Moreover, the everyday struggle to survive often takes precedence over health care. "For many people the question may be 'Do I go to work today, or do I see the doctor?' " says Dr. Earl Scott, medical director of the Sydenham Clinic, part of a network of free clinics in Harlem...
...closing of Sydenham Hospital in 1980 symbolizes Koch's attitude toward human services. As the only emergency-care municipal hospital in West Harlem. Sydenham treated Black and Hispanic people in one of the nation's most medically underserved areas: the infant mortality rate in Central Harlem, the second highest in the country, compares with figures in some underdeveloped nations. But Koch saw only the need to enforce "fiscal austerity," so Sydenham was closed after community protests, a hospital takeover, and a violent clash between the police and outraged citizens...
Koch told Blacks that Sydenham, which could have been kept open for less than $15 million, was simply too expensive for the city. Yet, at the same time--and here the mayor bears a striking political resemblance to Reagan--city investment and incentive programs have provided 20 real estate corporations with over $330 million in uncollected taxes. Koch's tax incentive programs cost New Yorkers $174 million in fiscal year 1982, which has led a city councilwoman to report that "these tax giveaways are the fastest growing expenditure item in the city budget...