Word: medicalization
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...rounds at their pursuers. The troops stopped, then fled back to the bridge, where they all crowded together and indulged in a flurry of mutual self-congratulations. There was a wounded prisoner lying on the ground, his face covered with dust and blood oozing from his mouth. Although a medic was present, the prisoner was given no attention. A private raised his M16. 'Don't!' warned a Vietnamese-speaking journalist. Too many Americans.' The soldier put his gun down and the journalist moved off. A few minutes later there was a single shot; the prisoner...
...take on a grubby look. Yet the faces of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe were as admired and familiar to Americans during World War II as Dwight David Eisenhower's. Irreverent toward rank and cynical about the war-"Just gimme th' aspirin," Willie tells a medic. "I already got a Purple Heart"-Willie and Joe were more than cartoon characters. They were the American...
Chris Gregory, a former evacuation medic in Vietnam, followed McCarthy at the platform and said that the rally was "an alternate Memorial Day, a day to celebrate life...
...years ago, Dr. William Henry was ready to succumb to his annual urge and quit his general practice in rural Twisp, Wash. (pop. 750). As the only full-time physician in a 500-sq.-mi. area, Henry was so overworked that he seldom read a medical journal and never had a vacation. But last year the doctor got expert help from Carl Chillquist, a former Army medic. As Henry's paraprofessional aide, Chillquist enabled the doctor to see many more patients, skim those journals, and even get away for skiing and fishing. In recent years, Twisp itself has never...
...Gamon, who practices in Cheney (pop. 6,407), has nothing but praise for Medex Robert Woodruff, a former Army medic who helps him provide medical care at Eastern Washington State College. "He has good rapport with the students, who come back often and ask for him," says Gamon. Patients are equally impressed with the work of ex-Navy Corpsman Ronald Graves, a veteran of Marine combat in Viet Nam, who now works with Dr. Marshall Thompson in Davenport. Says one middle-aged patient: "If he's good enough to take care of our boys on the battlefield...