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...street, she rings a neighbor's doorbell. "Open up. I'm your health volunteer," she says, and instantly, the door is buzzed open. Inside, she tells 26-year-old Azizeh Mohammadi that she should come to the health center the next day to discuss family-planning with the resident doctor. Mohammadi agrees to go. Male contraception is equally promoted and sought...
...latest audit was released to the media on Thursday by New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. "I'm so angry that I can hardly speak of it," Slaughter told TIME. "The one thing that will come of this is better testing and better record-keeping by the Army." (Read "A Doctor's Life in Baghdad...
Cecile Dionne learned to say "doctor" before she did "mother." As one of the Dionne girls - the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy, born 75 years ago on May 28 - Cecile spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette...
...prisoner in the name of getting information: "[The interrogator] may, according to international law, use ruses of war to build rapport with interrogation sources, and this may include posing or "passing himself off" as someone other than a military interrogator. However, the collector must not pose as: A doctor, medic, or any other type of medical personnel; Any member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) or its affiliates. Such a ruse is a violation of U.S. treaty obligations; A chaplain or clergyman; A journalist; A member of the U.S. Congress...
That may be the case. On Jan. 16, an Israeli TV news show telephoned a Gaza doctor, Izzeldin Abuelaish, known for his dedication to peace, for a live broadcast. The call came just after a tank had shelled the living room of his home in a refugee camp, killing three of his daughters and a niece. Through the TV channel's influence, the Israeli military helped evacuate the doctor's other wounded relatives. But his plaintive question - "Why, why did they do this?" - touched the hearts of many Israelis...