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Ambulance

Description: Driving along with Boston ambulance on Albany Street to rear emergency entrance of New England Medical Center. View from behind ambulance and then head on. Flashing lights and sirens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977

CAT scan

Description: Film transfer of CAT scan explainer. CT (computed tomography) scans being done on patients to diagnose tumors and blockages. “Produced in the public interest by Technicare Corporation and its subsidiary Ohio-Nuclear, Inc. Filmed by Vebo Productions, Inc. Chicago.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1977

Dentist's office

Description: Dentist's office. Assistant brushes tools under running tap water (not antiseptic). Dentist examines x-rays. Tooth chart on patient's record. Fluoride paste and gel containers. Dentist probes in patient's mouth. Hygienist arranges and hands tools to dentist. They wear no mask or gloves. Close-up inside mouth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1977

HCHP Cambridge

Description: Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) Cambridge Center interiors. Pharmacy, lab. Elderly woman has blood drawn. Woman gets leg x-rayed. Chest and head x-rays on fluoroscope. Rx sign. Woman gets eyes examined by optometrist. Signs to several departments - ob/gyn, mental health, allergy, visual services. Cambridge Street entrance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/30/1977

Methadone clinic

Description: Austere interior of methadone clinic. Nurse at window counter with two pitchers. No addicts. Interview with doctor at Boston City Hospital on reason to develop alternative or transitional treatments for heroin addiction. Syringe in calibrated bottle of yellow liquid.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1977

State laboratory

Description: State public health laboratory. Technician works with sera in vials under protective glass hood with gloved hands. Draws specimens with pipette, deposits in test tubes. Interview with Dr. George Grady on Legionnaire's disease; says it is definitely not an epidemic despite outbreak in Vermont among immune suppressed people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977