Word: medicalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army medic Michael New was arraigned in a U.S. Army court for refusing to wear U.N. insignia with his uniform. New was to be sent to Macedonia to be part of a U.N. peacekeeping force but remained in Germany after refusing to wear the U.N.'s blue helmet and armband. He has said that it is illegal to wear a U.N. uniform or serve under U.N. authority because he swore to uphold only the U.S. Constitution and government. If the Army court agrees, New's case could strengthen the cause of Congressmen who oppose putting U.S. troops under U.N. command...
That attitude outrages antihomeopathy activists like Barrett, who believe that druggists as health professionals have a moral obligation to their customers. "They don't even discuss among themselves whether selling an ineffective product is an ethical issue," he says. But pharmacist Jerry Zlotnik, executive vice president of Ohio's Medic Discount Drug chain, sees no need to defend the health benefits of the products he sells. Says Zlotnik: "I also carry candy, cigarettes, beer and wine...
...began shouting and running around in utter confusion. I repressed my own terror and started to make my way forward to find out what had happened. When I got to the head of the column, I saw a knot of Vietnamese huddled around a groaning soldier, a medic kneeling at his side. An ARVN noncom gestured toward the creek. Another small figure lay there in a fetal crouch. His head was turned sideways, and the creek flowed across his face. This man was dead. We had been ambushed. We had taken casualties from attackers who had vanished before...
...paranoid schizophrenic, was also convicted of assaulting four Secret Service officers, unlawful possession of a rifle and a shotgun, damaging federal property, using a weapon during a crime of violence and transporting a firearm across state lines with the intention of killing the president. The former army medic waited outside the White House for hours, then pulled a semiautomatic rifle out of his trench coat andfired 30 bullets at the front of the executive mansion. No one was hurt and the Secret Service said that the president was never in danger...
Doctors are television's perfect heroes. From Richard Boone in Medic through doctors Casey, Kildare and Welby to the bustling gang in St. Elsewhere, they have wielded their power like benevolent dictators. With a flick of the scalpel, they can make decisions of life and death, and with a consoling word reconcile people to either. They are privy to their patients' closest secrets, deepest fears, most traumatic life moments. Dressed in white, they watch over them like angels. And when they make their bedside pronouncements, they do it from above, like...