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...plan also eliminates a previously included ambulatory center, described last year by the chief physician at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital as one of the most important features of the project...
...years ago, Dr. William Henry was ready to succumb to his annual urge and quit his general practice in rural Twisp, Wash. (pop. 750). As the only full-time physician in a 500-sq.-mi. area, Henry was so overworked that he seldom read a medical journal and never had a vacation. But last year the doctor got expert help from Carl Chillquist, a former Army medic. As Henry's paraprofessional aide, Chillquist enabled the doctor to see many more patients, skim those journals, and even get away for skiing and fishing. In recent years, Twisp itself has never...
What brought Henry and Chillquist together was Medex, a unique program that recruits former military medics to work as doctors' helpers. The program, which takes its name from the French médecin extension (extension of the physician), was conceived in 1968 by Dr. Richard Smith, a professor of health services at the University of Washington. Smith had surveyed his state and found a serious imbalance between urban and rural medical services. While the Seattle area had one doctor for every 506 patients, the ratio in some rural areas stood at 1 to 5,000. "We found doctors...
...questions are never really asked. The decisions are made, and rarely are the students or faculty or others affected asked in advance how they want resources allocated." Rothstein also said that "the assumption that somehow gynecological problems are something extraordinary is a misperception. My wife ... was told by one physician that ... we couldn't just hire one, we'd have to hire several" (gynecologists). Farnsworth, however, called the hiring of a full-time gynecologist "impractical from a medical point of view...
Scott seems to have invested more than the usual portion of his personal anguish and anger in the role of Archie, an affluent San Francisco physician newly separated from his wife, who falls crazily in love with a tormented bitch named Petulia. Lester's film contains some of the best sequences of sexual and romantic tension ever caught by a camera, and Scott provides most of them. In one memorable scene, his ex-wife has come to visit him and brings a bag of homemade cookies with her as a peace offering. As the discussion becomes edgier and more hostile...