Word: self-help
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...herself auto-repair classes. Washington, D.C., has women's lobbies on Capitol Hill and in other parts of the federal bureaucracy. In New York City and other major urban areas, women's health clinics offer counseling, referral and care free of charge or at nominal fees. Self-help medical techniques, including pelvic examinations and Pap smears to detect uterine cancer, are being devised; male chauvinism, feminists argue, is most humiliating when encountered in an unsympathetic or uncaring doctor...
...Whether we like it or not, this is a luxury we can ill afford in the future. In making effective and equitable use of limited aid resources, judgments of financial need and self-help potential must be joined with judgments of scholastic merit," he continued...
Nursery Duty. Most hospital administrators who have tried self-help programs are pleased with the results. Officials at the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say that the system allows them to assign more registered nurses to the seriously ill. The reduced number of nurses in self-help spend much of their time teaching patients how to take care of themselves at home...
There are economic advantages as well. William Grove, administrator of Chicago's Grant Hospital, estimates that a bed in a self-help unit costs the hospital only $70 a day, compared with more than $ 100 for a bed in a general-care ward. Patients, however, do not save any money; hospitals, reimbursed by insurance companies on a per diem basis, charge uniform rates...
...patients seem to mind. "They regain their independence on this floor," says Jeanne Salerno, Einstein's ambulatory care coordinator. She tells of one woman who had been particularly depressed and unwilling to do things for herself. The patient was recently moved to Einstein's self-help unit and encouraged to help out during feeding time in the maternity-ward nursery. Performing a useful task convinced her that she was better and could manage for herself, and a few days later she went home...