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Nursing home bed shortage

Description: Elderly patients remain in hospitals much too long because of bed shortage in nursing homes. Patient using walker. Unoccupied hospital bed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1989

Overcrowded Danvers State Hospital

Description: Danvers State Hospital is overcrowded and administrators are anxious. Exteriors. Volunteers renovating interior. Beds in close quarters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1989

Senate and hospital funds

Description: Hospitals are desperate to collect promised funds from the state. Dukakis says new revenues are necessary to meet the obligation. Bulger apologizes for lack of money.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1989

Shattuck AIDS unit

Description: Shattuck Hospital AIDS unit (including prison ward): patients are visited by medical staff who volunteer for the assignment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/08/1989

Universal health care in jeopardy

Description: Universal health care in jeopardy because funding once promised to hospitals has been rescinded from state budget. Montage of hospital file. Steven Pierce, Kenneth Lemanski, William Nagle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1989

Vietnam Present Tense

Description: Reporter's journal on life in Vietnam 15 years after the US left. People bicycling in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Water buffalo. Elderly man practicing tai chi. Rice paddy. River in Mekong Delta with brown water and shabby boats. Destitute families sleeping in street in Saigon. Historical novelist Anthony Gray. Comment from Vietnamese man about new freedom of expression in press and government. Comments on the forgiving attitude toward Americans; they see the war as history and move forward without animosity. Faces of smiling children en masse. Amerasian children. Market with bins of beans and bananas. Da Nang Hospital exterior and primitive ward; doctor tells of dire lack of medical equipment and antibiotics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989