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Forbes, who became a Harvard stage phenom, remains just as stunning more than a decade later. She has that rare species of blessed voice—fluid as quicksilver, full as down, and fine as lace. It carries a richness and sincerity that saturates every note she sings, regardless of the style or sentiment it embodies. It’s no exaggeration to say that, given the right combination of time and place, China Forbes’s voice can change your life...
...Guant?namo, one prisoner had a gunshot wound that was left to fester during three days of interrogation before treatment, and two others were denied antibiotics for wounds. In Iraq, according to the Army surgeon general as reported by Miles, "an anesthesiologist repeatedly dropped a 2-lb. bag of intravenous fluid on a patient; a nurse deliberately delayed giving pain medication, and medical staff fed pork to Muslim patients." Doctors were also tasked at Abu Ghraib with "Dietary Manip (monitored by med)," in other words, using someone's food intake to weaken or manipulate them...
...left at a local hospital with a certificate attributing death to "sudden brainstem compression." The hospital's own autopsy found that the man had died of a massive blow to the head. Another certificate claimed a 63-year-old prisoner had died of "cardiovascular disease and a buildup of fluid around his heart." According to Miles, no mention was made that the old man had been stripped naked, doused in cold water and kept outside in 40? cold for three days before cardiac arrest...
...rule at the Brigham was that we, the Surgical team, ran the code. Medical teams' advice was suspect - they never gave enough fluid or bicarbonate, didn't use big enough IV's or strong enough electrical shocks. They were not "procedurally oriented"; no "hands." "Doctors who can't operate" was the typically arrogant Brigham surgeons' term for the medical residents...
...Displeasure showed on her face. I had been pushed out of the way by senior residents within a minute. They had her well-ventilated with the mask and "lined up" (all the IV's inserted, fluid pouring into her circulation to increase her dangerously low blood pressure). Same for the old man on whom she had passed...