Description:
BREAST CANCER PATIENT AT BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/14/1985
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Description:
MAMMOGRAPHY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST LUMPS, BETTER CHANCE OF CANCER RECOVERY.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/05/1987
Description:
Due to financial problems, Bill Baird must close abortion and birth control clinic in Boston. Newspaper clippings on his controversial advocacy.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
08/09/1989
Description:
Bellotti, via implication in negative campaign ad, attacks Silber's comment on rationing health care for elderly. Silber calls ad unfair and inaccurate.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
07/27/1990
Description:
Health clinic at Billerica House of Correction. Nurse Donna listens to inmate's chest with stethoscope. Dispensary of medical supplies on shelves and in locked cabinets. Crutches and canes hang on wall. Infirmary ward with one patient asleep on bunk. Exterior of prison with cupola and ivy.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/05/1978
Description:
Dr. Gloria White-Hammond (pediatrician) examines a young Latina child in an examining room. The child cries and White-Hammond comforts her, speaking in English and in Spanish. White-Hammond speaks to the child's mother about treatments for the child. White-Hammond examines the child with a stethoscope. Interview with White-Hammond about a program designed to increase the number of African American physicians across the nation. She says that medical schools lack the financial, academic and other kinds of support necessary to retain some students. She discusses the need for more minority physicians, who bring a "sensitivity" to the treatment of minority patients. Video cuts out and then comes back with stills of infographics on new Boston University medical school program and minority doctors.
1:03:41: V: The camera crew sets up a shot of the doctor examining the child. The child begins to cry. White-Hammond examines the rash on the child's leg. The child grows upset as she sits on the examining table. The child's mother removes her dress. White-Hammond comforts the child in Spanish. White-Hammond examines the child with a stethoscope. White-Hammond tries to comfort the child as she cries. 1:06:32: V: White-Hammond talks to Callie Crossley (WGBH reporter) and the camera crew. Crossley asks White-Hammond her opinion on a program designed to increase the number of African American physicians across the nation. White-Hammond says that she is not very familiar with the program; that the program sounds like a good idea. Crossley explains some of the features of the program. Crossley notes that the program eliminates the MCAT entrance exam for medical school. White-Hammond says that the program has potential; that the structure of the program and the selection process will be important. White-Hammond says that medical schools lack the kind of support system needed to retain some students; that financial, academic and other kinds of support are necesssary for students to do well in medical school. White-Hammond says that the medical field needs more minority doctors; that minority patients request to be treated by minority doctors. White-Hammond says that minority doctors bring a "sensitivity" to the treatment of minority patients; that many minority students have the intellectual capability and the determination to become successful doctors. Crossley closes the interview.
1:03:41: V: The camera crew sets up a shot of the doctor examining the child. The child begins to cry. White-Hammond examines the rash on the child's leg. The child grows upset as she sits on the examining table. The child's mother removes her dress. White-Hammond comforts the child in Spanish. White-Hammond examines the child with a stethoscope. White-Hammond tries to comfort the child as she cries. 1:06:32: V: White-Hammond talks to Callie Crossley (WGBH reporter) and the camera crew. Crossley asks White-Hammond her opinion on a program designed to increase the number of African American physicians across the nation. White-Hammond says that she is not very familiar with the program; that the program sounds like a good idea. Crossley explains some of the features of the program. Crossley notes that the program eliminates the MCAT entrance exam for medical school. White-Hammond says that the program has potential; that the structure of the program and the selection process will be important. White-Hammond says that medical schools lack the kind of support system needed to retain some students; that financial, academic and other kinds of support are necesssary for students to do well in medical school. White-Hammond says that the medical field needs more minority doctors; that minority patients request to be treated by minority doctors. White-Hammond says that minority doctors bring a "sensitivity" to the treatment of minority patients; that many minority students have the intellectual capability and the determination to become successful doctors. Crossley closes the interview.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/28/1984
Description:
Red Cross blood bank. Dated packs of whole human blood on shelves labeled by type such as A negative in refrigerated cases. Carton marked Rush. Technicians examining vials of blood with ungloved hands. Chart showing number of units of each type stored. Plasma in box in freezer. Units being packed with ice in carton.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
09/12/1979
Description:
Blue Cross requests huge increase in Medex rates as compensation for losses and federal cutbacks in catastrophic coverage. This would put burden of higher premium on elderly.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/26/1989
Description:
The patient population of Boston City Hospital includes non-English speaking immigrants, homeless families, drug addicts, persons with AIDS, extremely aged people, all of whose health care and social welfare needs are great. How the staff, facilities and medical support infrastructure minister to them.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
06/16/1989
Description:
BCH residential care unit for children with AIDS. Boston City Hospital.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/02/1987
