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...rush hour. The congestion is so bad that the city forbids 1 in 5 cars, depending on license-plate number, from leaving home at peak travel times each day. But the streets are still a mess. "Ambulances often simply can't get through," says Carlos Eid, a doctor with the Brazilian Association of Traffic Medicine...
...achieved global renown in 1991 when he led the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid peace conference, the first ever face-to-face meeting of Israeli and Arab adversaries. Doctor turned negotiator Haidar Abdel Shafi, above, the rare secular leader respected by rival Palestinian factions, resigned in 1993 over the Oslo peace agreements with Israel, which he said failed to address the issue of Jewish settlements on disputed land...
...triumphant air punch): “Because you’re not supposed to mess with destiny.” Do not go to this guy after he graduates from medical school: Sandel: “Now consider a second case: This time you’re a doctor and transplant surgeon. You have five patients each in desperate need of an organ to survive. One needs a heart, one a lung, one a liver, one a kidney, and the fifth a pancreas. But you have no organs and you’re about to see them die, until suddenly...
...climbed up on the stretcher and looked straight down at him. He was perfectly alert, maybe a little amused at the sight of this doctor standing over him on his bed. I told him I needed him to relax his muscles. And, then, a wonderful light came on in his eyes. He told me he understood this - maybe it was something a wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed...
...Vatican quickly fired back this week. John Paul's longtime doctor Renato Buzzonetti, who now monitors Pope Benedict XVI, said that doctors and John Paul himself all acted to stave off death. "His treatment was never interrupted," Buzzonetti told the Rome daily La Repubblica. "Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken." He added that a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope's death when he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids. Buzzonetti did not specifically respond to Pavanelli's claim that John Paul needed a tube weeks, not days, before he eventually died...