Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported TIME's A. Lin Neumann: "Inside Rangoon General Hospital, patients lay screaming and dying in the corridors as ambulance drivers rushed through the wards with fresh casualties. Supplies were short, the doctors said, and the stock of some anesthetics was running out. One doctor feared he might soon have to perform surgery with only pain-killers. Drivers said they had picked up a very small percentage of the dead. They told of soldiers in many places taking the corpses for cremation...
Bush's stance is not suprising. As Vice President, in 1985 he cast the deciding vote in favor of increasing out of pocket expenses for elderly medicare recipients. With his patrician upbringing, Bush doesn't seem to understand middle-class dilemmas such as, "Should I go to the doctor about that hacking cough, or should I buy shoes for my children...
...Margaret Martinson, although she is called Josie here, and the disaster of their stormy love affair was capped by the calamity of their marriage. She later confessed, Roth claims, to having hoodwinked him by obtaining a urine sample from a pregnant black woman and submitting it to a doctor. Roth writes, "The description in My Life as a Man . . . of how Peter Tarnopol is tricked by Maureen Johnson into believing her pregnant parallels almost exactly how I was deceived by Josie in February 1959." He adds, "These scenes represent one of the few occasions when I haven't spontaneously...
...exhausted refugees were fighting malaria, diarrhea and intestinal diseases from their journey. There was scant physical evidence of either chemical or gas bombings, but refugees said those victims had not lived to carry their tales across the border. In a primitive medical clinic, Caglayan Cucen, a Turkish doctor, said he would never forget treating a little Kurdish girl for an injured foot. "She was crying and crying," he said. "Then I realized that there was another sound just outside: hundreds of the Kurds, hundreds of them, had begun to cry with...
...went to a doctor in Wilmington, who discovered an aneurysm, a weakening in an artery supplying blood to the brain; the artery was already leaking. Biden was rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for eight hours of cranial surgery, which many patients do not survive. Lying completely still in intensive care afterward led to the development of a blood clot on his lung, which required an operation to implant a filter in a vein. In May he was back on the operating table, for surgery on a second aneurysm. It was a hellish time, but he is completely recovered...