Word: medicalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we were fighting around the casino, one of our guys stepped forward and got shot. I went to get him with our chief medic. Some snipers fired at us, and the doc was killed instantly. The man we went to help died during the night. His brains were running down his forehead, and we couldn't have saved him even if we had had an operating room...
...fusillade increased, the Rangers ripped up the bulletproof Kevlar mats from the floor of Wolcott's Black Hawk to fashion a makeshift bunker. The shield, however, provided only the barest protection, as Master Sergeant Scott Fales, 36, swiftly discovered. An Army special-forces medic who has saved 88 lives during his career, Fales was working on several wounded men when he felt himself slammed to the street. A bullet had ripped through his leg. Hunkering down next to the wreckage, he quickly bandaged the wound and then resumed tending his comrades...
...casualties rose, the medics were forced to dart from one stricken soldier to another. Crouched near the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, Fales suddenly spotted five grenades sailing over a wall in his direction. Yelling to warn his comrades, he threw his body over two wounded soldiers to shield them from shrapnel. Meanwhile, Technical Sergeant Tim Wilkinson, 36, a Special Forces medic, also nestled next to the downed helicopter, heard a call from the other side of the street. It was Bray; his men needed medical attention. Yelling across the street for them to "lay down some cover," Wilkinson grabbed...
...buddies pulled us into a room" in a nearby house, recalled Rodriguez, an Army Ranger specialist four. "There were four of us in there wounded and some others in other rooms nearby. We were calling back and forth to each other. I was bleeding pretty good, but ((a unit medic)) came and put pressure pants on me." (These are inflatable sleeves used to immobilize limbs and stop bleeding.) Then "we just waited and waited" -- for almost eight hours, until rescuers arrived. "We couldn't get medevacked ((taken out by helicopter)). I don't know exactly...
...local activism, even solo advocacy, has paid off in the face of adversity. Three years ago, John Broussard, a former Air Force medic, stunned the tiny Louisiana farming town of Welsh when he announced on local TV that he was gay and had AIDS. After the broadcast, his home was pelted with rocks. Local doctors refused to treat him. Baptist neighbors crowed that he was going to hell, and his parents, he says, "went through more rejection by friends in one year than they ever had in their entire lives...