Word: normalization
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...fourth week I was still staring at two gaping holes in unhealed skin. They were like cuts on a cadaver; it was creepy. There didn't seem to be a reason for this failure of his skin to close. His pre-op labs had been normal. I went through our old mnemonic - FRIEND - but there was no foreign body, radiation, infection, enteritis (like Crohn's disease), neoplasm (cancer) or diverticulitis producing these dry holes in my patient's knee. Maybe the miracle just wasn't going to happen this time. There didn't seem to be a reason...
...blood tests, Manuel had developed diabetes. Wound healing problems (though usually less dramatic than Manuel's) are often part of this disease, when the diabetes is uncontrolled - as it was in his case. The blood sugar test we did two weeks before the operation had been normal. It was quite high now. But Manuel started on insulin, stopped diuresing, got ruddy again and, to my great delight, closed up the cuts on his knee - all in the following week. He wasn't very happy about having to inject himself for the rest of his life and, I think, suspicious that...
...coined by Hannah Arendt in her work on the Holocaust to describe how the great atrocities in history are generally not committed by sociopaths or crazy people. Instead, it is the ordinary people who accept the premise of their state and therefore participate in evil while perceiving it as normal. Ultimately, the people who ran my pledging process were not monsters. They were regular college students. Most were nice, accomplished, educated, socially-conscious, and even proclaimed Christians. We all knew each other, and in some cases had developed intimate bonds of sisterhood. They, like the women before them, only...
...Much also depends on how you define "firm." To be enacted, the principle of non bis in idem requires that the sentence in the first case be "firm" - that is, that it can no longer be appealed through normal judicial routes. In his sentence, Bermúdez referred twice to the firmness of the Italian conviction, justifying the acquittal in part on the assertion that the sentence that Osman received - 10 years in prison - could not be changed. However, two days before Bermúdez presented that verdict, an appeals court in Milan did just that, reducing Osman's sentence...
Even on a normal day, Ibrahim Khalil, the complex straddling Turkey and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, is a rather unusual international border crossing. Although it is an entry point into Iraq, there are no Iraqi soldiers, no Iraqi flags, and seemingly no Iraqi federal officials. Instead, the Iraqi side is controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government, which enforces its own customs and immigration policies, enforced at checkpoints manned by Kurdish peshmerga fighters under the flag of Kurdistan - a red, white, and green tricolor with a golden...