Word: medico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mass communications media are increasingly devoted to health and medicine. Advertising, public relations and the media together collaborate in a kind of "medico-media hype," as every new research finding or experimental treatment spawns an immediate press conference and a torrent of publicity. With each month, a new disease comes into vogue--osteoporosis, premenstrual syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and, of course, AIDS...
...went virtually every day last week. As a team of Brazilian forensic experts examined the Embu bones at Sao Paulo's Instituto Medico Legal to determine whether they were Mengele's or not, Tuma -- and others -- provided bits and pieces of fresh evidence in what could be the final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death...
...forensic examination got under way last week, the medical investigators worked in strict secrecy. Outside the third-floor multiroom lab at the Instituto Medico Legal, armed military policemen stood guard around the clock. Within days, the original five-man team of examiners had grown to seven; early on, they discovered signs of an injury in the pelvic area that might correspond to a broken hip Mengele reportedly suffered in a wartime accident (though Rolf Mengele said he knew of no such injury). After preliminary tests on the 208 bones before him, Coordinator Wilmes Roberto Teixeira reported that he had found...
Everywhere there were noise, explosions, gunfire and wrenching cries for help. "Medico! Medico! I'm hit! Help me!" Aboard one landing craft, a German shell struck a flamethrower strapped to one soldier's back. The explosion set the whole landing craft on fire, and it burned all day long, the fire punctuated by explosions from the craft's ammunition supply...
Physicians are being asked to walk a precarious tightrope as they attempt to meet the health-care needs of the elderly. Older people are justifiably frightened about modern medicine's ability to prolong life artificially. Considering the current medico-legal climate, there is frequently no alternative but to use such machines and devices even when it is against the physician's better judgment. Workable guidelines are needed to aid doctors as they try to achieve a balance between the concepts of death with dignity and the prolongation of meaningful life. Colorado's Governor Lamm...