Description: Kit Clark Senior Center day program in Dorchester. Elderly and infirm people do arm exercises to music while seated. Mostly women, white and black.
Description: Lynn has shortage of prenatal care facilities because hospital could not support obstetric unit. AtlantiCare Medical Center. Pregnant woman on examining table.
Description: Public hearing held in Framingham to discuss the health care proxy bill of Rep. David Cohen, which would allow living wills. Right to die.
Description: Medical residents oppose long shifts on duty. They appeal at hearing for shorter hours so as not to jeopardize patient care. Doctor looks at x-rays.
Description: Father of assaulted son who died outside Lynn Hospital says many do not know emergency room was closed and services cut back there in favor of less central but newer Union Hospital. AtlantiCare.