Word: anesthesia
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...they don't hold his head that well anyway - so I have all six hands on his face and head. Then he tries to bite and the older nurse looks up at me with eyes that speak explicitly: 'You need to go talk to the parents about general anesthesia...
...tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less a necessary, deterrent to murder...
...media response was insufficient in comparison to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami that hit the region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people are injured, that children are being operated on without anesthesia, that people don’t have food and shelter and other such basic amenities,” Farid said. Farid and others handed out black bandanas last Thursday to raise awareness. Jyothi L. Ramakrishnan ’06 said she thinks the difference in media coverage was due to Pakistan?...
...letter went on to say that "consistent with my longstanding arrangement with Vice President George Bush, and not intending to set a precedent," Bush was authorized to discharge the powers of the presidency while Reagan was under anesthesia. Saturday evening, after Reagan was once again alert, he signed a second letter that was delivered to Congress affirming his intention to resume his duties. This informal, rather nebulous process carried out by the White House closely paralleled the formal constitutional procedure. "It may not be a formal invocation of the 25th Amendment," said former White House Communications Director David Gergen...
...White House Counsel Fielding and Reagan all believed that the amendment was designed for a longer, more debilitating illness than this one appears to be. They did not want a Reagan precedent to pressure future Presidents into using the amendment on inconsequential occasions--when, say, a President was under anesthesia merely to have some wisdom teeth removed...