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...much skin compromised, the top priority for doctors is to keep a patient's body warm and hydrated. In the first 24 hours, the treatment is surprisingly simple: saline fluid--sometimes as much as 8 gal.--to keep up blood volume and stabilize blood pressure, and morphine for pain. Only after a patient is able to maintain normal blood pressure, says Yurt, can surgery begin--a painstaking process in which burned skin is scraped away and substitute sheets grafted in. And even then, only about 20% to 30% of the severely burned will survive...
...many television and computer screens, and who wonder what the reality of such work is, might ask ourselves and each other if strength is susceptible to different renditions, less grandiose, more fragile, and, dare I say it, all too human. It is time to comfort those in pain, to reflect, and perhaps, if we must rebuild, to do so differently. It is not, however, the time for yet more grand machinations of death and destruction, more people to be mourned by more people. There has already been time enough for that...
...most noticeable efforts has been made by Au Bon Pain. The bustling bakery cafe has just completed a three day collection of new clothes and canned food for the Salvation Army...
Volunteers from the Salvation Army have also been at both Au Bon Pain locations in the Square since the day after the tragedy collecting money for victims and their families...
...citizens must understand that our nation, whatever its ideals, certainly does not display equal respect for the humanity of all our worlds peoples. Not even close. How, otherwise, could we speak so blithely of collateral damage, thereby dismissing the deaths of countless innocent Iraqis, Afghans, and Sudanese, and the pain of their families, as a direct result of our own military action? (How, while were at it, could we basically ignore the holocaust in Rwanda?) If we really want all the peoples of the world to respect our humanityand it is surely our realization that our humanity was catastrophically disrespected...