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...stripping Iraq of its skill base, driving out the people needed to rebuild the country's infrastructure, run businesses, and staff schools and hospitals. "For months people have been walking around Baghdad saying, 'Where's this person? Where's that person?'" says Raya, a 37-year-old doctor, a few hours after arriving in Stockholm. "Then someone will say: 'They've left; and they have left; and they have left.'" Raya, who did not want her last name published for fear her parents in Baghdad would be targeted, says she is the 11th doctor at the city's main maternity...
...contact for 15 minutes or more, and repairmen who failed to turn up at my house for appointments but then arrived unannounced a few days later. At the same time the best airlines in India will send me a text message if my flight is delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit to see how his patient is doing, and the staff in a couple of hotels have been so skilful and gracious that I was barely aware of all they were doing to make my day more pleasant. Good experience or bad, though, they...
...verbally and to tell me I would be shot soon or kept at the detention house for the rest of my life. One morning, after coughing all night and being unable to sleep because of a headache, I could barely get out of bed. I asked for a doctor. The guard gave me two aspirin tablets and told me to drink plenty of water. I waited for the doctor, but he did not come. When I asked for him again, the guard said, ''The doctor has gone to the countryside to receive re-education through physical labor...
...size. Under each toe was a large blister. I could not take the socks completely off because some of the blisters had broken and the pus had dried, gluing the socks to my feet. I managed to stagger to the door and called the guard. ''May I see the doctor, please.'' ''What for?'' ''My wrists and feet are injured. I need some medicine and bandages.'' ''The doctor does not give treatment when a prisoner has been punished.'' ''In that case, perhaps you could just give me some disinfectant ointment or Mercurochrome for the wounds?'' ''No, not allowed.'' ''May I have...
...hardly any sleep, I became sick once more, with a high fever and delirium. I was again taken to the prison hospital. I recovered, but then I had a bad hemorrhage. When the bleeding was brought under control, I was taken to the hospital for an examination. The ''doctor'' was a young woman in her early twenties, with an armband of the Revolutionaries. She was clumsy, and after the brief examination she told the guard I had cancer of the uterus. I did not believe her because I was sure she was not a qualified doctor. But apparently the guards...