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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Champion Of the Poor | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruelest Cut | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Joint Effort To Study Drug Abuse Care | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jennifer Leaning, | Title: Mental Health at Harvard | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPH Receives $107 Million To Fight AIDS | 2/25/2004 | See Source »

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