Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was little coasting for Karpov, or for Kasparov. The challenger, brash and overconfident, lost four of the first nine games. "Get the kid a doctor," whispered one expert spectator. "He looks like he's in shock." But Kasparov steadied and held the champion through a record 17 straight draws, until Karpov won his fifth game. Though Kasparov now teetered just one lapse from defeat, he somehow slowly captured the psychological momentum. Four draws later he won his first game. But as the strategy of stasis wore on, records, and bored spectators, fell by the wayside...
Born to a well-to-do family, Mengele received degrees in medicine and anthropology before arriving in 1943 to work as an SS doctor at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps. As cattle cars of Jewish captives arrived, he committed the "unfit" to the gas chambers and chose others for his experiments. He injected serum into children's eyes in an effort to change their color and killed victims with drugs in order to perform autopsies on them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth...
...last week's three-day hearings, the panel exhorted every government and international body to find and bring to trial the 73-year-old doctor. U.S. Attorney General William French Smith promised a U.S. Justice Department investigation into Mengele's whereabouts and allegations of U.S. complicity in his escape. Mengele, last known to be living in Paraguay, has slipped through the fingers of his pursuers on at least four occasions...
...centers are still groping their way toward the ideal form of care. One lesson they have learned is to avoid separating victims from their families, since fear for the life and safety of a spouse and children is usually part of the trauma. Another concern is that doctors may be regarded as the enemy. Many torturers are dressed as white-coated specialists, and some even insist that victims call them "doctor" to help legitimize their physical abuse...
...first step is usually to get the patient talking. "One of the main jobs is to bring the patient out of his or her shell," says Inge Kemp Genefke, a doctor and head of the Copenhagen center. Through therapy, we have to prove to the patient that whatever decision was made under torture would not have changed the end result of the torture...