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...Four Boston policemen "accompanied" my patient through the electric doors. He had been resisting arrest, even tried to run down a cop with his car. That probably explained why one of the cops had my patient's face mashed down into the black vinyl foam pad that covered the gurney, in the process asphyxiating him. The other two were taking turns yanking his arms up behind his back and punching his kidneys. The fourth officer was ramming the tip of his nightstick into the base of the patient's spine. Two on one is unfair, three is brutal, four-even...
...facility built by Saddam Hussein for his inner circle and commandeered by the U.S. military. Doctors operated on what was left of my right arm and sent me to Germany three days later, giving me a generally favorable impression of military medicine. But from my end of the gurney, I had little idea about what was happening around me. HBO's spotlight on the 68th Combat Support Hospital fully assays the skill, bravery and humanity of my caregivers, and goes a long way to explain why the survival rate among U.S. combat casualties has reached an historic peak...
Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London's Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist's instruction. Thomas counted aloud, "One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep...
...University has outlined the major goals of The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Program for Islamic Studies, but deliberations continue as to the details of its structure and personnel. Faculty point-man Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney professor of history, will work along with the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development to advance the program...
...think the dean at that time proposed me for that position because he knew I could take a joke. FM: Have other professors ever asked for your title? JR: Oh no, that would be the least desirable title to have. Please note that Professor Engell is the Gurney Professor. That’s just a more severe case of incapacitation...