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Beginning September 1, women have been able to go to the walk-in clinic with the option of requesting gynecological, instead of just medical or surgical services. Through the shuffling of some physicians' schedules' UHS now guarantees women continuous access to a physician interested in gynecological problems...
...addition to the changes affecting gynecological services. Wacker is studying the feasibility of opening the UHS clinic services to dependents of faculty and employees. (At present, dependents over age 14 can be treated by a UHS physician in Stillman Infirmary. But this in-patient service is not used frequently...
Died. Dr. Phil Edwards, 64, physician and Canadian Medal-winning runner at three Olympics; of a heart attack; in Montreal. Edwards starred in track at New York University, later became an authority on tropical and chest diseases. At the 1936 Olympics in Munich, he and other black athletes, including Jesse Owens, debunked the Nazi theory of Aryan superiority...
...Asia, Africa and Latin America are capable of providing health care for only a minuscule fraction of their populations. Indonesia, for example, has just one doctor for every 28,000 people. The African continent, which increased its medical manpower by 2% between 1960 and 1967, still has but one physician for every 9,700 individuals. Southeast Asia has a ratio...
Japan, for all its prosperity, musters only one doctor for 880 people, and there are at least 2,900 muison, or doctorless villages. Even in the U.S., where there is one doctor for every 650 individuals, there are entire counties without a single physician...