Word: heale
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...routine case: Manuel was an office worker, 31 years old, a little overweight but in otherwise good shape. The two half-inch-long incisions I made on his knee doing arthroscopic surgery had not healed when he came to my office a week afterward to get his stitches out. So I had him come back a week later, then two more weeks later. The knee joint was ok but at the fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem...
...institution that is well worth keeping together. So I took it upon myself to stop the arguing as best I could. It wasn't just the songwriting. It was having to go through life, day to day. Sometimes that is really hard, and things get misread. I tried to heal the wounds and am proud of myself for that...
...huge enough already. Sometimes that's a good thing: Much as Johnny's star confidence elevated the mood of the office, the surgeon's big ego can often buoy up a sick patient, maybe even firing up a parallel kind of confidence in the patients, which really makes them heal better. Oft-disgusted by the surgical ego, though, I was feeling wary of it and a little embarrassed of myself...
...waiting for Iraq to heal its sectarian wounds, Baghdad is the wrong place to look. If reconciliation can happen anywhere, it may be in the country's war-torn margins, where some locals say they've had enough of the violence and are trying to come together around common goals with or without the central government's help...
...Honest and straightforward politicians are like medicine, trying to heal the various ailments of the nation by telling us what we really need to hear about ourselves and our country: the truth. But it can be a bitter pill to swallow, and when it comes time to vote, Americans are apparently not interested...