It also intervenes when screening for domestic violence, confronting victims and directing them to a variety of resources, including legal help, that can make their lives easier. S.F. General is absolutely the first hospital to actively assess whether such intervention works. And by the end of summer, the hospital will open a center, located off-site, geared toward helping victims of all violent crimes recover from their traumas. It's an innovative medical culture that, experts say, might end up changing the way the American health care system treats domestic violence. And if you ask the people involved how it happened here, most of them point to Beth Kaplan, who somehow managed to convince an organization that is at once chaotically busy, endlessly bureaucratic, and chronically underresourced to undergo a significant institutional change, and to begin dealing innovatively with a social problem most hospitals don't even consider a health care issue.
All teens have their hangouts.
Some like shopping malls or diners, others prefer parks and playgrounds. I don't know what it is about ERs, but something about them always attracted me. Had Kaplan paid a little more attention during anatomy class, she might have noticed that the couple she partnered with bickered. She might even have noticed the male half of that couple trying to stab the hand of the female half with a scalpel, while they worked inside a cadaver. But Kaplan didn't notice until a few weeks later, when her female anatomy partner telephoned, in tears, and wanted her to come over.