Word: bunkerism
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...dirt floor or on bundles of rags. A child died of lockjaw because of a shortage of tetanus serum. Her body lies twisted like a snake under a shroud of rags. Two feet away an old woman is dying of malnutrition. She had stayed in her bunker for well over a month, switching from boiled rice to rice soup as her reserves dwindled, then to anything edible. She is the color of fine porcelain, and the flies are all over her face...
...military casualties are, if possible, even more pitiful than the civilians. Their primary hospital is now a bunker. Some men have been there for as long as a month, with more lightly wounded comrades cooking for them over smoky wood fires on the bunker steps. There is no sterilization for instruments, and there is a shortage of catgut. Dr. Nguyen Van Quy, who performed 200 operations in two months, has taken to using thread from sandbags for sutures...
...Lietenant Calley. Calley was made to abstain from shooting 10 women and children whom Thompson whisked away to safety in his helicopter. Even though he had initially filed a report with superiors which condemned the killings, Thompson submitted another statement that the rescued civilians were hiding in a bunker "located between friendly and hostile forces engaged in a heavy fire fight." Thompson won the Distinguished Flying Cross, even though he had to invent the "heavy" fire fight...
RATHER than reinstitutionalize psychiatric care into one central building, the Lindemann Center tries to coordinate an extensive network of community-based programs. Accordingly, it oversees and consults on out-patient psychiatric care at the North Suffolk Mental Health Center, the new Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, and the Acute Psychiatric Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...Harbor Area faces similar problems in the scale and quality of community care. Only Revere offers comprehensive help. The Bunker Hill Health Center in Charlestown, the Revere-Chelsea Clinic, and the North Suffolk Mental Health Center in East Boston provide effective, but more limited, mental health services. The North End, the West End and Beacon Hill still lack their own programs. The new Lindemann Center and the Acute Psychiatric Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital are moving to meet these needs, but their efforts have either just begun or are still in the planning stages. As in the Cambridge-Somerville...