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Wafa Idris, 28, becomes the first female suicide bomber, killing one Israeli and wounding more than 150 in Jerusalem. Idris was a volunteer medic...
Greger says he supports the living wage cause and was especially attracted to the excitement of being a medic at a local protest...
John Upledger has never shied from risk taking. As a Coast Guard medic in the 1950s, he once performed an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane with the help of an onshore surgeon who guided him by radio. "To the best of my knowledge," he says, "no one's done that before or since." Today Upledger, 69, keeps on setting precedents. An osteopath by training, he is the founder of a form of nontraditional medicine called craniosacral therapy that is rapidly gaining adherents...
...Connor trots towards Mudd while the medic pulls the ambulance around. Inside, a janitor is cleaning up the blood where a man hit his head after slipping. Co-workers stand nervously outside the door, waiting for news. O'Connor tries to figure out what happened while the paramedics carry the man to the ambulance--right out an alarmed emergency exit. O'Connor finishes his interviews with the alarm buzzing loudly in the background...
...There's no correct answer, of course. Killing people is a morally messy business. Whether we allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...