The clinic decided to screen all Medicaid patients for chlamydia, but did not screen private-payer patients, because it seemed unecessarily expensive to screen everyone.

Because Chinese people were thought to be carrying the bubonic plague, entire blocks of Chinatown were quarantined.

There is no wheelchair ramp to enter the outpatient clinic, so patients in wheelchairs should be referred to other sites for their care.

The doctor told the nurse not to schedule appointments with people if they could not speak English. The doctor instructed the nurse to tell such individuals that the practice was not accepting new patients.

All new patients are asked to answer questions about smoking, drug, and alcohol use, as well as safe sex practices.