Word: hysteria
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...closes down. Paramedics with life-and-death cases must sometimes beg or bluff their way in. Equally frustrating, trauma-care capability gets entangled with the community's demand for street medicine. High-speed runs for "unknown rescue" all too often involve nothing more than cut fingers, headaches and family hysteria...
...wounded bird with her thin, angular features, frightened eyes and short silver hair. "My hands! My hands!" she cried. She began to vomit as the ambulance sped toward Santa Marta Hospital, the last "open" emergency room of the night. But her pain and terror were apparently caused by hysteria. The woman was sent home within hours...
Crime is the one arena where prime time drops its Panglossian pose to pander to public hysteria. This is not to argue that the narcotics squad on Nasty Boys should instead pursue jaywalkers or that the cops on Hunter should stop shouting, "Freeze. Police. Drop the gun!" O.K., so you cannot have detective shows without serious crime. But why are sitcoms also menaced by a crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office...
...would she lie to you?" Fisher asked thejury, adding that weaknesses in the woman's storywere evidence of its truth. He said "anyone wouldbe upset" about the situation with the videotapebut that her prolonged "hysteria" following theDecember incident indicated that something morehad happened...
...help but feeling that my mother was right. If peer pressure forces Calvin into baseball hysteria, I hope his mom can provide the same kind of voice of reason to remind him constantly of the cosmic silliness of Abner Doubleday's monster creation...