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Center offers wholistic health care
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Ann Sue von Gonten, D.D.S., (left), demonstrates a procedure to dental students Darrell Gurren and Mike
Graham. The physicians and students volunteer time to operate a weekly clinic for area residents.
Students staff weekly health clinic
By LISA BRANTLEY
Slaff Writer
Expense is a major concern for many
people when they seek medical and dental
care. But a group of Chapel Hill health
sciences students is trying to lessen the
worry for the disadvantaged and get work
experience for themselves at the same
time. They formed a free weekly medical
and dental clinic known as the Student
Health Action Committee, which is held
on Monday nights at the Orange County
Health Department offices in Carr Mill
Mall.
The clinic, which is staffed by UNC
student volunteers in the fields of
'medicine, dentistry, nursing, nutrition
and health administration, provides care
primarily for low-income Chapel Hill and
, Carrboro residents but is open to anyone
on a first-come, first-serve basis, said
Bruce Williams, a fourth-year medical
student who coordinates SHAC. He said
many low-income Carrboro residents use
SHAC as their primary source of health
care while others visit the clinic on a more
informal basis.
Williams said the SHAC clinic handles
a large number of return visits, and
volunteers characterized their usual pa-,
clients as people from the Chapel Hill-Jr
Carrboro area who have been coming in
fairly regularly for a long time. Any refer
rals are usually sent to the North Carolina
Memorial Hospital or Orange-Chatham
Comprehensive Health Services, he said.
Student Nursing Coordinator Kevin
Ballance said the clinic often was not very
busy, but that business picked up during
the season for school athletic physicals.
"Sometimes we only see three or four pa
tients a month," he said, "but you can
really tell when basketball season starts."
Sonya Jackson, an llth-grade Chapel
budget
Hill High runner w ho visited the clinic for
an athletic physical, praised the clinic but
said patients sometimes had to wait a
long time to be examined. "I come here
every year," she said. "Most of the
athletes at the high school do because it's
free. They (the student volunteers) try to
be really thorough."
In addition to physicals, SHAC offers
immunizations, gynecological exams and
PAP smears, diabetes testing, tuber
culosis skin tests and care for patients
with high blood pressure, said Barb Brett,
a senior health administrative major who
is in charge of the administrative side of
the center. Dental care also is provided by
SHAC on an appointment basis, but oc
casionally dental emergencies are seen,
Brett said. It consists mainly of filling
cavaties, pulling teeth, and giving
fluoridation treatments.
Ballance said the way the program
operates is that first year medical students
and nursing students interview the pa
tients and take their medical history. A
fourth-year medical student then ex
amines them, acting as the physician and
ordering all treatments.
Ballance said a physician from the
School of Medicine and a nurse from the
r School of Nursing co-sign prescriptions
and oversee the nursing staff; 'The atten
ding doctor and nurse, known as precep
tors are required by law to be at the clinic
at all times, he said.
"We can't touch a patient unless a
preceptor is there," Ballance said.
Williams said the doctor and nurse also
provided guidance to students. "The at
tending physician and nurse do provide
legality," he said, "but a large part of
their function is to provide a teaching
dimension as well."
Ballance said lab work at the clinic,
which is also supervised by the precep-
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That compares to the less than $10
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, "I can understand the speculation, but
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The script of Everybody's All-American
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tors, is done by second-and third-year
medical students, while students from the
School of Public Health take care of the
administrative duties such as keeping
track of patient files and charts and
managing finances. Neighborhood
volunteers also participate in the project
by registering patients for examination
when they first come in.
The clinic has four medical examina
tion rooms and three dental chairs and on
a typical night operates with a staff of
around 12. Usually the clinic sees 10 to 12
patients per night, but they have the
capacity to see as many as 15 to 20, Brett
said.
Most volunteers agree that this hands
on learning experience is a valuable addi
tion to what they receive through the
UNC health sciences schools.
"I think the biggest thing for me is that
it (the clinic) gives you a whole different
outlook on nursing," Ballance said.
"You get a whole lot more freedom and
also more responsibility than when you're
working within the nursing school for a
grade."
SHAC, the longest running student
operated clinic in the country, was started
during the 1967-68 school year as a pro
ject by UNC and Duke "health sciences
students to serve Chapel .Gawboroici
and Durham. ' """" r
Williams said the program began with
clinics in two locations one in Chapel
Hill and one in the Durham Edgemont
community.
Both clinics have since relocated to
other facilities, but Williams said SHAC
has maintained "coalition attitudes" in
that students in different fields join
together to provide health care.
Brett said funding for the project
comes almost equally from three local
organizations. This year SHAC received
$1,200 from both the United Fund of
Chapel Hill-Carrboro and the UNC
School of Medicine and $1,500 from
North Carolina Memorial Hospital, she
said.
By LYNN DAVIS
Staff Writer
Is there more to proper health care than crawling to Student
Health Services for Sudafed every time a cold starts coming on?
Can psychological problems such as stress and depression really
make a person physically ill? Can a positive attitude help to heal
physical illnesses?
According to staff members of the Community Wholistic
Health Center at 107 N. Roberson St., the answer to all of these
questions is yes.
Wholistic health care, said Bepi Pinner, director of the center,
is "an approach to health care which emphasizes balancing the
different aspects of a person, such as physical, mental, social
and emotional.
"The idea is that all those things are interrelated and will af
fect your health," she added.
Barbara Hartley, publicity coordinator for the center, ex
plained that the center offers both traditional and alternative ap
proaches to health care, all of which emphasize helping the in
dividual become aware that he or she can be responsible for
good health or illness.
"It depends on a person's own attitude," she said. "If you're
involved in your health and want to improve it, chances are that
you will."
At the center, clients can see health care practitioners on an
appointment basisv'-The present staff of practitioners includes
two physicians, two psychotherapists, two massage therapists,
one nurse practitioner and two midwives from the Chatham
County Birthing Center.
In addition to the services of the practitioners, the center also
offers a variety of classes and workshops at night and on
weekends. Topics range from astrology and massage to the uses
of healing herbs.
Pinner said classes in meditation, massage and visualization, a
relaxation technique in which a person imagines himself in a
pleasant situation, were usually among the most popular courses
the center offered.
If a client needs additional health care that is not offered the
center can refer him to one of its allied practitioners, Pinner
said. Allied practitioners are health care professionals in the area
whose work is endorsed by the center but who practice mainly at
other locations in the community, she added.
Pinner said the center currently has around 200 to 250
members. Membership is not necessary to receive treatment or
attend classes, but members do get a discount on the cost of
these services. A large percentage of the clients and members are
women, and most are between twenty and fifty years old, but,
Pinner said "There is no 'average type.' We have people of all
ages, both men and women."
Hartley said the center was perfect for those who are
somewhat intimidated by typical health care institutions. "The
center provides medical care in a homey environment," she
said. "It gives you answers to questions that you don't find in a
conventional office. You don't just get a pill for your ailment.
The doctor looks at the rest of your life to see what's really
wrong."
Self-awareness is the first step toward following the wholistic
approach to health care, Hartley said. Self-awareness is "being
aware that it all fits together. What you're eating, your environ
ment and stress all affect your health," she said.
After a person achieves self-awareness, possibly through
techniques such as meditation, he or she must then have a true
desire to change, Hartley added.
"We're here to educate people about how to change," she
said. "Sometimes other people outside the center get the impres
sion that we're all doing everything right, but actually, we're all
trying to do better about our health and eating habits."
Another technique used at the center for helping clients
acheive self-awareness and relaxation is hypnotherapy. Leif Dia
mant, a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist on the center's
staff of practitioners who was one of the founders of the center,
said he thought a lot of misconceptions about hypnosis exist to
day. According to Diamant, hypnotic states really aren't as
mysterious as most people think they are.
"Actually, most people go into some sort of trance several
times a day, like in a boring class," he said.
Another misconception about hypnotism is that a hypnotist
can "put someone else into a trance," Diamant said.
"A hypnotist can facilitate someone else going into a trance,
but he does not actually put him into it," he said.
The benefits of hypnosis include relaxation, increased access
to thoughts and feelings which may have become hidden inside a
person's consciousness, and the potential to find ways to learn
faster or retain things for a longer period, Diamant said.
He said about one-third of his clients were UNC students.
Both Diamant and Pinner said that wholistic health care was a
field which was gradually evolving as new discoveries were being
made.
"A lot of people accept that their minds can make them sick,
but few are willing to take it one step further and admit that
their minds can make them well," Pinner said. "And there
seems to be growing evidence for that."
Panel hears ideas on improving schools
By CINDY PARKER
Staff Writer
RALEIGH The N.C. Commission
on Education for Economic Growth
Tuesday heard suggestions for improving
public education, ranging from better pay
for teachers to tighter graduation stan
dards for students.
The 50-member commission of
legislators, business executives, educators
and parents was appointed in October by
Gov. Jim Hunt, who asked an advisory
panel to raise their ideas and concerns
about the plan. The panel, made up of 35
education leaders who report to the com
mission, told commission members that
stricter graduation and promotion re
quirements for students should be
.adopted. ,,. .... . , . .
: c: 5 iThe, 22-page draft incluxiea, section on.
partnerships betweerTN.C!. colleges and
universities and public high schools.
"The purposes of the partnership
would be to plan and conduct staff
development programs, plan and conduct
practical research designed to improve in
struction and review and refine teacher
education programs," the draft stated.
The plan also outlines a Quality
Assurance Program for certified teachers.
The program will attempt to change the
way college students traditionally have
been trained to become teachers. College
-freshmen and sophomores who are plan
ning a career In teaching will be required
to pass two sections of the National
Teacher's Examination before admission
to teacher education programs.
"There is a need to increase the
number of college students training to
teach vocational education," said Tom
Broughton of the N.C. Advisory Council
on Education. This omission in the plan
needs to be corrected, the council said.
The plan calls for a Principal's Institute
to be established at UNC. The program
would combine the resources of the
School of Business Administration, the
Institute of Government and the School
of Education, as well as "the wealth of
resources available throughout the
University," it said.
Several of the organizations repre
sented on the panel said the proposed
timetables went too fast. They suggested
a slower progression in areas like salary,
raises. - -
,,The draft proposal recommends, that
the teacher salary range, which is current
ly $i3,660 to $19,680, be raised to a range
of $18,000 to $34,000 a year for teachers
who have completed a two-year period of
initial certification. The funding level
needed from the General Assembly this
year is left blank.
Students in third, sixth and ninth grades
should demonstrate specified proficiency
before being promoted to the next grade,
the draft said. For students who do not
meet the new requirements, special sum
mer school programs and remedial classes
throughout the school year should be im
plemented. The N.C. Congress of Parents and
Teachers said its first priority would be
reducing class sizes. The plan's section on
class size-reducation refers only to grades
four through six.
The N.C. Association of Educators
said the plan was too general and omitted
certain groups.
"We want to build this system well
from the bottom up," Hunt said. "Our
second-graders are reading a year above
theWtional aveage.. That's progress. It's'
time to move ahead.
The 50-member commission, modeled
after a national education task force
Hunt chaired last year, is expected to
discuss final proposals on Feb. 14 and
release a final draft on March 15.'
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