University Daily Kansan, July 13, 1983
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Doctors
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When the program began, Burge said, 150 to 160 students in each entering class applied. Last year only 110 applied and 133 applied for the 1983-84 school year.
Originally, she said, type one scholarships paid full tuition plus $500 each month to students who agreed to practice in underserved or critically underserved areas. Type two scholarships paid only tuition to students who agreed to practice anywhere in Kansas.
LAST YEAR, HOWEVER, the Legislature changed type one scholarships to pay tuition and $500 a month to students who agreed to practice in critically underserved areas and type two to pay tuition to students agreeing to practice in underserved areas.
"I think that turned a lot of kids off," Burge said.
She said the last year's law also increased the
interest rate from 10 percent to 15 percent for students repaying the money instead of practi-
ticing it.
VARMAT SAID the Med Center had tried various methods used by other medical schools around the country to increase the number of doctors in Kansas.
She said raising the interest rate was meant to prevent students from using the scholarship as a loan.
He said the Med Center had increased the number of students admitted, increased the number of residencies available and tried to attract students from rural areas, because the student might be more likely to return to a rural area to practice.
The Med Center also developed an outreach program in which students would go to a small community for a few months to practice with a doctor.
"Without question, first the increase in the number of students, second the scholarship plan and third the outreach plan have contributed to a large rise in the number of still some serious shortages." Yarrat said.
STANLEY HANDSY, who was on the scholarship for one year, graduated from the Med Center in 1979 and practices in Erie, a city where people in critically underserved Neoohio County.
Students on the scholarship may state which area they prefer to practice in, but the Med students who are not scholarships must do so.
Handshy, who is from a rural area outside Columbus, said that he had planned to practice in a small town before he took the scholarship. "I didn't know where about where the Med Center would locate him."
Handsily's biggest concern, he said, was that he had no idea which areas would be classified as
City
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Angino also said that the opening of the Wal-Mart Discount City in Lawrence had already drained business from the downtown area.
harm that a suburban mall would cause to downtown
Angino also said that financing the necessary capital improvements for a downtown shopping center would only cost Lawrence taxpayers $700,000 more than for a suburban mail
He warned that further decreases in downtown business would cause a loss of jobs.
ANGINO WENT ON to say that getting a federal grant, one of the methods proposed by the city for paying for the project, was a good precedence to recover some of the federal taxes it paid.
Ann Franke, 1224 Ohio St., read a statement outlining her opposition to the proposed downtown development.
She said that the walkways located in the center of the plan would attract a criminal element and that it could not be easily patrolled by police.
She also said that the plan would dramatically change the nature of the retail shopping environment from unique shops to more standardized retail stores.
In other business, the commission directed the city staff to prepare a resolution, which, if approved, would authorize the city to build a firebase inside the side of Kasold Drive From Sixth to 15th streets.
THE COMMISSION WILL consider the resolution at next Tuesday's meeting.
Handsy said he wanted to return to a rural area to practice because he had grown up in a small community. He said, however, that he did not believe the number of doctors in rural areas increase the number of doctors in rural areas.
Under the resolution, the city would pay 50 percent of the cost of the sidewalk, and property owners on the west side of Kasialo Drive would be taxed for the other 50 percent.
"I don't think the scholarship would convince anybody to come to a rural area that didn't want to. At least at the present time, I don't think you can buy a physician," he said.
Property owners would be taxed according to the size of their lots and distance from the Property.
Margaret Searn, a resident who would be taxed, protested the practice of taxing land. (AP)
"The purpose of sidewalks are for walking,
those who benefit the most are those who walk,
their own."
She said that because everyone used the walkway and not just residents of the area, all residents were on the sidewalk.
ANOTHER PROBLEM, he said, was that some counties were listed as underdressed, but have towns in adjaining counties with large populations which might affect the size of a doctor's practice.
underserved when he finished his residency. He wanted to be located in southeast Kansan, but there was no guarantee that counties in that area would be underserved when he was ready to begin practice.
Wards
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The SRS staff directs those parents to family-oriented programs, she said.
Floy said that investigations are begun after the SIRS office or the police receive a complaint about an alleged assault.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY Jean Sagan, who files child custody petitions in Douglas County, described the role of police investigating a child suspected to be in need of care.
"After receiving a complaint or responding to a domestic disturbance, a police officer may discover a neglected or abused child," Sagan said.
"He usually contacts SRS staff and asks them to undertake a more thorough investigation.
"Some children are simply abandoned. Others are severely abused," Sagan said. "And we have to do something."
The SRS staff responds immediately, according to Flory, if it thinks the child is in imminent
If a child has been abused, but it seems like an isolated incident, SRS staff will respond within 72 hours.
"IF WE RECEIVE a call from kindergarten that a child is covered with belt marks, we go out to school."
If the child is habitually dirty, she said, SRS staff has seven days to remow
If the child is truant or ungoverable, state law prescribes for the staff to undertake an activity that is not ordinarily permitted.
"A custody case may take anywhere from a week to a day to process." Flory said. "We have to talk to the district attorney's office, then the judge, write a report seeking initial temporary custody, talk to the parents and then write a report for the follow-up hearing."
SAGAN SAID THAT she would usually file a petition for protective custody if the problem was serious and if she had enough information on the case.
The court then hears the arguments and makes a determination of the benefits and drawbacks of placing the child in protective custody.
During two years of filing petitions involving neglected and abused children, Sagan said, there have been times when she thought it was difficult to keep from getting emotionally involved in the
Sagan also said that it was her policy “not to interfere in the internal workings of a family, unless the best interests of the child necessitate u.”
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