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...mobile surgical teams travel with combat forces. Navy Captain H.R. Bohman, a surgeon, was one of an eight-member medical team that did surgery 8 miles from Baghdad--the closest American operating room to the city--as the Iraqi capital fell to U.S. forces in early April. "We can document at least four Marines who are alive today who would have died if they'd had to be sent back as far as we were sending people back in the first Gulf War," says Bohman, a 30-year Navy veteran...
...ritual sacrifice of war prisoners” while ignoring the fact that more people have died in conflicts started by the modern westerns he extols than an any other inter-country conflicts in world history. If veritas is indeed his aim, why stress the importance of the Constitution, a document fraught with hypocrisy from the opening lines of “all men created equal” following up with the decision that black slaves are equivalent to three-fifths of a man (a dirty secret is that Thomas Jefferson lost the popular vote but won the presidency...
...LIVING WILL In essence, it's a legal document that speaks to doctors and hospitals as well as family members to tell them what you want in the way of medical treatment--including life support--if you're in a condition where you can't express your wishes yourself. Each state has an approved living-will document that is downloadable and free on the website of the not-for-profit partnershipforcaring.org...
ENLIST A HEALTH-CARE PROXY You also need a durable power of attorney for health care. This document gives one person the ability to be the medical decision maker if you are unable to make these decisions on your own. It is available on the Partnership for Caring site as well...
...easy is one reason a combination living will/health-care proxy called the Five Wishes Living Will has gained such a following. Accepted in 35 states, it is written in plain language and asks questions about what kind of medical treatment you would and would not want. Copies of the document ($5 apiece) can be ordered on the website of the not-for-profit group agingwithdignity.org...