Word: medicant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kroll told the court he has filed papers for a conscientious objector status. Should this appeal be accepted by a review board at Fort Devens, Zalkind explained, Kroll would either be discharged and assigned to alternative civilian duty, or assigned as a non-combatant medic in the army...
...liver or a heart for transplantation when needed is still far off in the future, but an information bank from which surgeons may find out about organs as they become available is in the process of being established. Sponsor of the bank-or, more precisely, clearinghouse-is the Medic Alert Foundation. Started on a shoestring twelve years ago in Turlock, Calif., by Dr. Marion Collins, the organization has by now issued something like 200,000 identification bracelets and necklace tags to victims of diabetes, hemophilia, penicillin allergy and other conditions, to alert medical emergency teams to special dangers involved...
...same one-shot membership fee of $7, Medic Alert will now issue bracelets or pendants stating that the wearer has declared his desire to do nate his heart, kidneys or other organs. A doctor with a dying patient wearing such a tag will phone collect to Medic Alert headquarters (the switchboard never closes) to find out what organs the patient specified for donation. The doctor can also get the name of the next of kin-from whom, under most present state laws, permission must still be sought. It will stm be up to both the doctor and Medic Alert...
...women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving an ambulance in Viet...
...None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality," says Negro Medic John Crews, "to know that the V.C. draw no color lines in their killing or mutilating American soldiers-black or white." When it comes to standing up to Victor Charlie, there is no color difference among U.S. troops...