Word: medicalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...These bad guys don't respect anything today," says medic Carlos Tiznado, 22. "Some years ago, the gangsters would say, 'It's the Red Cross, leave them alone,' but now they're like, 'We'll hurt you too.'" It can be particularly unnerving treating wounded criminals with their friends and relatives standing by. "I have had these guys threatening to kill me unless I save the man's life," he says. "It's sad to think we could lose our lives at the hand of these narcos...
...troops. Less than six months ago, this farming village near the town of Mahmudiya - about 50 miles south of Baghdad - was prime al-Qaeda territory, and a target for numerous raids. On this day, however, small groups of children poked their heads out of doorways to wave; an army medic checked an old woman in a wheelchair; and two families invited the troops to lunch. None of this would have been possible, Zemp said, without the efforts of the newly strengthened Iraqi Army...
...Cuba analysts like Latell still believe Raul will pursue economic if not political restructuring. Machado, a doctor who served as a medic to the Castro brothers' rebel army and has been at their side since Fidel took power in 1959, may be a geriatric hard-liner, but he is also one of Raul's closest confidantes and may help his reforms navigate the minefield of Fidelista resistance during the early stages of Raul's rule. Those changes are expected to include broadening private enterprise, especially in the agriculture and service sectors - institutionalizing profit-oriented farmers' markets, for example, and letting...
...This is who I am. This is my life.' SERGEANT DARREN MANZELLA, U.S. Army medic and a decorated veteran of Iraq, discussing his homosexuality in a Jan. 8 press conference. Manzella has been openly gay since August 2006, despite the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy; its critics have argued that his case proves the policy is arbitrarily enforced...
Arab ambulance drivers, like Arab zookeepers, have learned how to navigate Jerusalem's many borderlines. "I'm suspicious-looking in so many ways," laughs Nasser Izhiman, a volunteer driver and medic for the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city...