Word: medicalization
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...medic in World War I, Heckel kept his sketchbook close to him, recorded in blistering strokes the wounded and the insane, the sight of bombed-out villages and bands of homeless orphans. As the gallery's Erwin Petermann, the arranger of the show, says: "Heckel is still as provocative as anything an angry young man of today will concoct, with the difference that instead of showing one's disdain in burlap and trash, or manifesting one's revulsion in painted soup-can labels, his work shows the roughness of life in realistic exclamation marks...
...Collins went further: he set up the nonprofit Medic-Alert Foundation. Subscribers pay $5 each for a bracelet and a lifetime medical record kept on file at Turlock. The tag bears the snake staff of Aesculapius and the words "Medic Alert." On the other side is a warning, such as "Diabetic," "Skindiver" (subject to the bends), "Hemophilia," "Allergic to Penicillin." Engraved along with the warning are the wearer's identification number and the injunction "Phone 209-634-4917." Calls may be made collect, the clock around...
...distinctive green berets, fashion crude villages of thatched huts, canvas and pine logs in the woods, act out roles as insurgents or villagers battling for control. Defenders whittle branches into spikes, set them upright under leaves to lame invaders. To show the "natives" how to treat wounds, a friendly medic snaps the neck of a rabbit, slits its belly open for a blood-and-guts anatomy lesson. "This is the liver." he explains. "These are the intestines...
...troops were disposed on unprotected ground at the Battle of Gettysburg, and for the fact that he got shot. Civil War buffs still debate the merit of his deployment, but there is no question that the Confederate cannonball that smashed Sickles' right leg helped to make U.S. medical history. After the leg was amputated, a Union medic showed Sickles a year-old circular that directed medical officers "diligently to collect, and -o forward to the office of the Surgeon General, all specimens of morbid anatomy, surgical or medical, which may be regarded as valuable...
...Vietnamese Ranger company landed in the nearest clearing, but three hours later they were only halfway to the crash. First man on the scene was another Navy medic, who shinnied down a rope from a helicopter hovering over the wreckage. Three men were beyond help; four of the five survivors died in their litters as they were slowly and stealthily carried through the Red-infested territory to the hospital in Nhatrang. Only the pilot lived to tell the story, and he could not tell much. Apparently there had been no enemy gunfire; the chopper had entered a cloud bank...