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Farmer is, above all, a gifted clinician, and he developed in Haiti something he calls "the P.I.H. model," a formula for administering first-class health care in dirt-poor settings. Every AIDS or TB patient is assigned a paid health worker, or accompagnateur--generally a friend, relative or neighbor--who will handle the drugs and make sure they are taken on schedule. The patient is also given what the doctors hope will be enough food for a family of five. "You can't take these meds on an empty stomach," Farmer explains, "and you can't treat a wasting disease...
...adolescents engage in self-mutilative behavior. That range is suspiciously broad, and other estimates have put the figure at just 6% or below. But with more than 70 million American kids out there, that's still an awful lot of routine--and secret--self-mutilation. "Every clinician says it's increasing," reports psychologist Michael Hollander, a director at Two Brattle Center in Cambridge, Mass., an outpatient clinic that treats cutters. "I've been practicing for 30 years, and I think it's gone up dramatically...
...workplace symptoms of substance abuse are and to sensitize supervisors and managers to them and to facilitate those employees getting help...[while managed care tries] to arrange for substance abuse care in a way that reduces the cost and increases efficiency,” said William C. Barron, a clinician with Harvard?...
...always available for students with urgent concerns, and the average wait time for an available medication appointment is 1.5 days. These advances result from introduction of additional staff; improvements in appointment and scheduling systems; extended staffing for after-hours urgent care; and adjustments in management protocols so that clinicians always have some clear time every week in their schedules for emergencies. A new triage system allows same-day telephone access to an experienced clinician for students who call, in order to clarify their concerns and arrange a prompt meeting with a clinician whose skills will match their needs...
...clinician, and [I] want to have results at the end of the day. Did you save their life? Did you help prevent a problem?” Marlink said. “What’s nice about this is that we are putting our tax dollars to work but monitoring to see that they are actually being put to good...