Word: medication
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medic will be sent overseas who is over 40, or has already served abroad...
...exhausted Japanese was sleeping when the medic reached him at the fringe of the prisoners, and he woke him by tapping the little man on the head with his scissors. The prisoner sat up quickly, bowing and forcing little smiles. The doctor took one look, turned to Bach and said: "Let's get him out of here tonight. He looks like he's in an advanced stage of tuberculosis...
...pint-sized medic tries to lift a husky wounded G.I., yells "Gimmee a hand, somebody." The G.I. (played by a one-armed veteran) promptly offers his own "blown off" hand...
...squatted in their foxholes, now filled with icy water, and waited. Occasionally they tossed hand grenades. The wounded lay quietly, or mumbled "Medic." No supplies or food could be brought across the river, no wounded could be moved back...
Suddenly a soldier ran around a corner of the house. He went away but was soon back with a young medic, who threw off his pack, mixed some powder and liquid, poured it into a glass and held the glass to my lips. He gave me another shot of morphine and carried me to the front of the house and laid me under a grapevine a few yards down the road. Out of a large cylinder he took two bottles. One held powder, the other liquid. He mixed the two in a bottle, which he hung to the grape arbor...