Word: medicalization
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...American machine gunner atop the mayor's office shot up the roof where the fire was originating. After a few minutes, the squad threw cans of gray and yellow smoke for cover. They carried the wounded man across the street to the mayor's office, where a medic did his best to save him, but within five minutes he was dead. The squad cleared the apartment building from which the shooter had fired but found nothing. Down the street, a 32-year-old woman had caught a bullet in the throat during the cross fire. After it was all over...
...lights flashing. After they were shot at, Talraas' driver, Sergeant Michael Maita, hit the gas and sped back to the southeastern corner of the town. Maita had been shot in the hand. "But," said Talraas, "he kept his wits about him and they got out of there," Maita shouting "Medic! Medic!" as they tore back to safety...
...Tallil Air Base 55 miles southeast, Sergeant Henry Barbe was fast asleep. Barbe is an Army "DUSTOFF" medic (an acronym for "Dedicated, Unhesitating Support to Our Fighting Forces"), part of the corps whose medical evacuation helicopters fly in to pick up their injured comrades in danger zones. And because their helicopters are marked with the red cross, the Geneva Convention forbids them from carrying offensive weapons. They are armed with nothing more than four 9mm pistols and one M16 rifle...
...Surgeon Major Mark Harris picks up the story: "It's a miracle that the soldier with the gut wound got to the hospital alive. If the medic hadn't arrived when he did, the guy would have perished within minutes...
...proudly shows off the mangled 7.62mm AK-47 shell the surgeons pulled from his right leg. The medic Barbe, however, is troubled by the news that an ambulance might have opened fire on his fellow soldiers. The rules of war don't seem to apply in Iraq. "That red cross is the only protection we got," says Barbe, "and they clearly don't care about that...