Word: sicklied
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...easy to imagine that doctors don't get sick. Surely the hygienic shield of the sterile white coat guards them from ever having to put on the flapping gown and flimsy bracelet, climb meekly into the crisp bed and be at the mercy of the U.S. health-care system. And if somehow they did enter the hospital as a patient, physicians ought to have every advantage: an insider's knowledge, access to top specialists, built-in second opinions, no waiting, no insane bureaucratic battles and no loss of identity or dignity when you turn into the "bilateral mastectomy in Room...
...that Christianity is dismissed at Harvard, she might take note of who have become its most visible advocates: Fred Phelps, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Ralph Reed. None are known for promoting Christ’s messages of love, tolerance, and generosity. Care for the poor, the sick, the sinner, and the prisoner is absent from today’s Christianity. The Catholic Church in which I was baptized has spent the past decade equivocating on accepting financial or ethical responsibility for becoming a haven of child predators. Instead, it isolates gay people, suppresses women, prevents contraception from...
...eyes. I felt faint. Eventually, I left the courtroom. I felt terrible for the families of victims, people who had lost their loved ones in the attacks. What must they have felt?! I even felt bad for anyone else in America who'd be shocked. It made me feel sick for them. But it also proved a personal blow to me as well: I could actually see him digging his own grave each time he said such things...
...because I'm not a psychiatrist. What I can say is this: [my children] experienced some very hard, ugly things in life - racism, rejection, injustice, violence - and in some cases have reacted in ways that are just as hard. In some cases, they became really sick. With Zacary, I think he sought out people and ideas as extreme as the humiliation and fury he experienced before he became an Islamist...
...glass at her. Later, she was thrown out of a teenage party she'd been invited to by a father who said Arabs weren't allowed in the house. Three days later, she slit her wrists. She hasn't had an easy life since, and she is, indeed, very sick...