Word: medicalizing
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Shrapnel ricochets off the walls of the humvee, hitting Beverly, Jenks and TIME photographer James Nachtwey. Smoke rises from the high-back. Blood pours from Weisskopf's right arm; when he holds it up, he realizes the grenade has blown off his hand. Specialist Billie Grimes, a medic attached to the platoon, sprints out of the third humvee and hoists herself onto the high-back. She uses a Velcro strap tied to her pant leg as a tourniquet to stop Weisskopf's bleeding and applies a field dressing to the wound while loudly asking the three other passengers if they...
Specialist Christopher Grimes, 25, has a favorite story about his big sister Billie, now a medic stationed in Iraq. For a time, when Christopher was in middle school in their hometown of Lebanon, Ind., an older boy would routinely walk up to him as he was finding a place to sit on the bus and shove him into a seat. Christopher never responded. But Billie, then a high school freshman who rode the same bus, couldn't take it. "Finally, she got tired of it, and she just stood up and clocked him," Christopher recalls. "That's the kind...
Grimes, 26, a medic who had been traveling in the next humvee, jumped out and began applying a tourniquet to Michael's arm, as close to the wrist as she could, to stop the bleeding. Later, a colonel would explain to Michael that the shrapnel range of an unimpeded grenade is about 15 feet in all directions. In this case, the combination of Michael's hand and the bench below it contained enough of the blast to save the life of everyone in the back of the truck. You can read the full details of the incident in "Portrait...
Saddam Hussein may not be dead, but it?s hard for Iraqis to fear his wrath when he appears on TV looking like some bedraggled apparition of Karl Marx, being checked for head lice by a latex-gloved U.S. military medic. The psychological impact on Iraqis of the former dictator?s capture will be immense, lifting, as U.S. administrator Paul Bremer put it, a cloud that has been hanging over Iraq ever since Saddam?s regime fell on April 9. It is also a huge morale boost to the U.S.-led coalition and those Iraqis who are working with them...
...medic, the wounded soldiers and their comrades began a frantic race against the clock. Buddies pressed their hands into Castro's hip wound to keep him from bleeding to death. The wound was so massive that his tourniquet was useless. He handed it to Wyatt, who needed two to stanch the blood flowing from his femoral artery. Amid the mayhem, Meinen, who had been manning a 50-cal. machine gun, noticed that he didn't have any feeling in his right foot. "It felt like it had gone to sleep on me, so I picked my foot...