Page 8-Saturday, February 4, 1978-The Michigan Daily Students complain Health Service slow Hospital move hinges on road relocations By LISA CULBERSO and BETH ROSENBERG When LSA sophomore Tom Folino injured his ankle playing bas- ketball, he went to the University Health Service for treatment. After waiting in line for an hour and a half and filling out the same form five times, he was admitted to the x-ray room only to find the machine was, shut off for the day. This experience may sound fa- miliar to many students who have visited the Health Service. The frustration of waiting in long lines, the nonchalant attitudes of doctors and unforeseen costs often add insult to injury. SHEILA FARMER, Student Serv- ices assistant in charge of patient re- lations, said student frustrations with Health Service stem from lack of awareness of how to profitably use a clinical medical care program. Ac- cording to Farmer, most students coming from a one-to-one relation- ship with a family physician to, Health Service don't know what to expect. "Students need to learn how to use a clinic, to wait, to use the system," said Farmer. They can learn to like it like their own family physician. Often, however, students don't give us a chance after they've had a bad experience." Sue Ferrick finds Health Service "just like any other clinic." The third year biological engineering student said she hesitated before going to Health Service for the first time. "My mother wanted me to see a 'real' doctor." "WHEN I went to Health Service, the x-ray machine was turned off," said sophomore nursing student Heidi Unger. "They gave me crutches and said to come back later. I even heard one of the nurses say, 'They ought to tell us when x-ray is open' If patients are unhappy with their doctors, they are encouraged to shop around and find a doctor they like. Students are urged to return to a par- ticular doctor as part of the attempt to establish an ongoing patient- doctor relationship. A seven-member student planning group has been set up to obtain student feedback. The organization will recruit volunteers to get student input in Health Service areas and tp open communication channels be- tween students and the Health Serv- ice. Farmer said students with com- plaints should contact her. "They acn be reassured or re-treated. If they don't give us feedback, we don't know what's going on." Another student concern with Health Service is the ten dollar fee assessment. Each University student is charged ten dollars per semester. This fee entitles enrolled students to unlimited visits to the general medi- cal clinic during regular clinic hours. Extra fees are charged for specialty clinics, laboratory tests, x-rays, and prescriptions and after-hours visits. The fee assessment began in September, 1976 when the Michigan State Legislature ruled that all not-teaching university facilities had to become self-supporting within five years. (Continued from Page 1) roads. Richard Kennedy, University vice-president for state relations, told the group that unless the UATS plan in- cludes a proposal to hasten traffic along Geddes and Fuller roads, the Univer- sity Hospital will be built in a different location in 1980. THE UNIVERSITY has recommen- ded that a four-lane parkway be laid4 down from the present intersection of Geddes and Fuller in the east-past1 North Campus on Glacier Way-and back down Fuller to Glen Street. Many of the area residents expressed resentment over the University's proposal. Most of the complaints aired emphasized the environment, bike trails, and historic landmarks in the. Huron Valley. Rose Wilson described what she called the "fantasy of the magic car- pet."-"When we shell out the money (for a car), we think we can get anywhere we want to easily." Wilson. also said traffic to the hospital doesn't deserve priority over downtown traffic. UNIVERSITY Hospital Doctors Sid- ney Gilman and Herbert Sloan, however, strongly voiced their support of the University's position. Gilman, a neurologist, said, "I came to the University Hospital in hopes of increasing academic neurology, but the institution is declining and people will only come (to work) as long as it stays modern." Sloan also said "easy ac- cess" to the hospital is necessary to continue "the mission of the University as a great resource for the people and the state." The proposed parkway, approved by University consultants Johnson, John- son & Roy, was drawn up with the University Hospital replacement project in mind. The Regents are ex- pected to decide on a site for the new hospital within the next few months. REGARDLESS of the site, the University expects to replace the main unit of the hospital in 1980, but state money has not been approved. The replacement project, which may not involve relocation, would not increase the number of beds in the complex but rather improve existing facilities. Much to their dismay, however, University officials have no authority over the UATS decision. The University consultants are now doing some research but Kennedy said, "We hope that you (UATS) will await the results of our study." UATS has narrowed their proposals from five to three: " What one citizen called "behavior modification." Satellite parking, car- pooling, higher parking fees, increased bus service. * Widening of Fuller from Glen to Wall Streets to four lanes, replacement of the Fuller Bridge with a four-lane bridge. " The most spectacular plan of all is number five: a plan developed by Ulrich Stoll, member of the Huron Valley Study Committee, Which calls for a new two-lane highway and bridge connecting the Medical Center directly with the Bonisteel-Fuller intersection on North Campus (see drawing). This cuts across a University-owned playing field and over the Huron River. However, several people said the natural beauty of Huron Valley would be destroyed if this road on stilts were constructed. But Stoll, the designer of the plan, noted the view from the briqlge could be pleasant and the artist's ren- dition of the proposed road might not be accurate. The 12-member UATS Steering Committee has until Feb. 12 to present a recommendation to the UATS Policy Committee. The Policy Committee would then take about two months to consider the proposal before finally sending a plan to a government agency for action. 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He also accused auto makers of neglect in the area of driver protection. "YOU FIND all kinds of safety devices on foreign cars which we don't have here," he said. John Melvin, an engineer for the Highway Safety Research Institute defended the program because it could ultimately save human lives, "More people under age 35 are killed by automobiles than by any other cause," he said. DISCO Lessons at Dance Space 314 2 S. State beginning Feb. 10 6 weeks-$21 for more information call 995-4242 Melvin also rejected the group's allegations that American cars lack safety devices equal to European cars. Except for a slight deviation in French seat belts, Melvin said he doesn't "know of any particular safety device in a European car that doesn't appear in an American car." KATHY FLOOD, another committee member said the group is "concerned that they're wasting baboons to solve man-made problems." She said she is not opposed to the use of animals in research in all cases. Flood also charged the information gleaned from the experiments would be worthless. "The fact that they (the baboons) are anesthetized is going to invalidate the results they get," she said. The committee also claims the study is redundant because it centers on similar impact tests conducted on primates in the past ten years. MELVIN ALSO discounted this charge, saying the experiments have a definite value because they emphasize the study of the thoracic (chest and spine) area, unlike other studies. Melvin called the test session held last Saturday a "successful test." He said the time of the next impact test is undecided-depending on Saturday's results. Bennett Cohen, caretaker of the University's research animals said, "We are satisfied here that no inhumane treatment is involved (in the experiments). The project is carried out with the animal under deep anethesia.". Coal union meetings: bow to Carter plea ISRAEL: 'IL E IflUltle TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY (Continued from Page 1) know how the shooting started or how many shots were fired. No arrests had' been made by late Friday. Elsewhere, picketing miners in west- ern Pennsylvania forced one company to halt shipments, but the troubled soft- coal region of the state was otherwise calm. LABOR SECRETARY Ray Marshall, acting on President Carter's behalf, telephoned Miller to ask for a one-day delay in the meeting. A White House spokeswoman said the request was an effort to give union and industry bar- gainers more time to reach a contract agreement. Miller at first said the meeting would be postponed until today, but the union announced later the session would not be held until Tuesday: It said many of the council members would return home for the weekend as the contract talks continued. Miller told reporters: "President Carter asked me to postpone for one day the meeting of the council." Associ- ate White House Press Secretary Claudia Townsend said Marshall made the actual call. MEDIATORS, meanwhile, met with union negotiators as they sought to nail down a deal that could end the longest UMW strike in history. The union had struck for 59 days in 1946. "The mediators are meeting with the parties separately and will be doing that this morning," said a mediation spokesman, Norman Walker. "There probably will be a joint bar- gaining session later, depending on how things go." NEGOTIATORS for the union and the' coal industry, reported at one point "very close" to agreement, had re- cessed their talks shortly after mid- night without settling on terms that could end the strike. Carter has come under increasing pressure to intervene in the strike as the effects of dwindling coal supplies have been felt by utilities and other customers, especially in the Middle West and Appalachia. But the president told a news confer- ence earlier this week he had no inten- tion of invoking the strike-halting pro- visions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which provides for an 80-day cooling-off period. MARSHALL also has stressed a "non-interventionist" policy toward labor disputes in general. "In any non-interventionist policy there are fuzzy gray areas," said one source explaining the administration's step. "Obviously things are at a very sensi tive point and God knows it's in the in- terest of this administration for a tenta- tive settlement." SOURCES STRESSED the call to Miller was not a prelude to Carter in- voking Taft-Hartley but was an ap- parent attempt to keep the negotiations from untracking again at a critical point. Miller called the bargaining council session to brief the members on the talks. The council must approve any tentative settlerment. 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