Enabling the disabled

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Physicians need to know more about assistive devices for the disabled. The American population is aging, and more people survive disabling accidents. Also, more patients in managed care plans means more family physicians are required to refer the estimated 20% of Americans with chronic limiting conditions to sources of such services and equipment. Generalists act as referrers for 72% of seriously disabled patients, but surveys of disabled patients indicate that 66% receive no rehabilitative services. The American Medical Assn has published guidelines to assist in referrals for hygiene, work-related and physical access assistive devices.

Usage, Services, Medical professions, American Medical Association, Self-help devices for the disabled, Assistive technology devices

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Anti-abortion activists shift focus to individuals

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Anti-abortion activists are sending letters, posters and pamphlets to the homes of obstetricians, gynecologists and their families because they are legally unable to picket near abortion clinics. Many of these physicians do not work in family planning facilities or perform abortions. The threats are indirect so that they do not qualify as harassment. Approximately 180 physicians in the Washington, DC area have been targeted.

Political organizations, Abortion & Anti-Abortion Groups, Health aspects, Crimes against, Political aspects, Washington, D.C., Pro-life movement, Gynecologists, Obstetricians, Pro-life groups, Pro-choice groups

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Every patient has a story

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Dr. Joe Sacco, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center's director of family inpatient care, and photographer Meryl Levin are writing a book about the personal lives of low-income patients in the Bronx, New York, NY. Sacco, who wrote a previous book about his medical internship, wants to inform the public and policymakers about the urban poor and how best to treat them simply by providing an objective view of their lives.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Public Health Care, Book publishing, Book Publishers, Adult Trade Books, Social aspects, Care and treatment, Case studies, Writers, Officials and employees, Health care industry, Portrayals, Public health, Urban poor, Works, Authorship, Excerpt, Sacco, Joe, Adult books, Bronx, New York, New York, Physicians as authors, Beyond the Emergency Room: The Search for Health Care in the South Bronx (Book), Levin, Meryl, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (New York, New York)

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