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ACliffie in search of birth control pills will have heard various unconfirmed stories about the University Health Services. But the one that sticks in her mind is that doctors at the walk-in clinic dispense Enovid like Aspirin, and so she may find herself hopefully filling out a little card for the walk-in clinic at the brightly colored clinic entrance to 75 Mt. Auburn Street...
...proportion of Cliffies who actually turn to the clinic is probably not high. Statistics, of course, are impossible to obtain. Each visit to the walk-in clinic must be recorded in a student's folder, and individual doctors can paraphrase a birth control query in different ways. Dr. Preston K. Munter, assistant director of UHS, thinks that most doctors record such a visit as "inf"-asked for general medical information. But at least one Cliffie who asked a doctor for pills recently saw him write "pills" in her folder in large block letters...
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...free of problems. The standing and waiting of 13 years ago has been replaced by sitting and waiting at the walk-in clinic today. The overcrowding is especially serious in psychiatry, where students complain they have to wait months for an appointment...
...director admits that students do sometimes wait a long time in the walk-in clinic. But, he adds, almost no other health service has a walk-in clinic, which means you must go to the desk and register for the next available appointment slot. "Waiting in our clinic is certainly an improvement over that," he concludes...