Word: doctores
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Apotheosis of Doctor Faust Will Radcliffe Dean sell Harvard’s soul to intellectual oblivion? By CHRISTOPHER B. LACARIA Sunday, February 11, 2007 Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse...
...Charlene's face fell. "Toradol doesn't work on me. I'm immune to it. Another doctor once gave me something that worked really well though, it was light, just a pill, I can't even remember what he called it, perca or perco something...
...noxious stimuli. But the non-physical mind is yet the only realm in which the bad experience of suffering exists. Mind and brain are mysteriously related. Lobotomized or drug-loaded patients can still answer questions. Stick one with a big needle and ask: does it hurt? Yes, it does, doctor. You can get him to report a VAS number. They might even withdraw from the needle. But there is no grimace, no groan. They certainly feel pain - but they don't care. And they don't need pain medicine...
...Shuwetij cannot remember the last night no patients arrived in the emergency room of his small hospital in eastern Baghdad. Just two years ago, when the things were more normal, Shuwetij or other doctors working night shifts would pass many evenings snoozing or watching television as nothing happened. Not any more. Now Shuwetij, the senior doctor on staff at the al-Kindy Teaching Hospital, works the overnight shift most every night. Usually about five or six patients arrive in Shuwetij's emergency room every evening. Most have gunshot wounds. Others have burns and lacerations from explosions. Shuwetij rarely asks what...
...immunization campaigns have made impressive gains, with more than 80% of one-year-olds vaccinated against polio and other easily preventable diseases. But on the whole, the health care picture in Iraq remains bleak. Hospitals like Shuwetij's face chronic shortages as medicine and supplies. And of course the doctors keep leaving. Shuwetij says 10 of the doctors on his staff have fled Iraq in recent years after getting threats. The remaining doctors at the hospital, which has about 200 beds, often will not work overnight shifts because the neighborhood is unsafe. At night, Shuwetij usually hears the sound...