Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salber found the report, "A Community Child-Care Program," which outlined the history and goals of the Center...
...disease. Federal statistics show that for a person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better use of the program. And at the Martha Eliot Center, Dr. Salber said, the children have many more minor ailments than normally: colds, respiratory ailments, chronic coughs...
...poor. The middle class, white doctors and nurses are different: They don't live with the poor, they just make their living from them. Even when the care is free, the delicate problem of winning the acceptance of the community remains. Dr. Salber and her staff organized a propaganda program during the past summer. News of the facilities and available care was preached from pulpits and spread through leaflets...
Medicaid, the much heralded medical plan of New York State, falls far short of humanitarian medical practice, as Dr. Salber explained. A cumbersome registration program with a humiliating and involved inquiry into family finances may turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly...
Liller also favors a genuine pass-fail system, dismissing Yale's program as a mere hoax on the students. In Liller's eyes, Yale's effort--stipulating Honors, High Pass, Pass, and Fail--represents just another grading system. "A true pass-fail system would give students a chance to take some off best courses. The added freedom is important...