Word: sicklies
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...Attorney General, Specter barked out an abrupt laugh. "Certainly not the President," Specter said. Then, after a pause: "And I think it's premature to talk about impeachment of anybody. I went through one proceedings of those and it was a big waste of time... I'm sick of wasting my time...
...getting sick...
...line-up for long. The bureaucratic illogic of the messages I can ignore; the management's false concern and manipulative guile can be fun to trace out - like the plot in a bad TV show. But what's so repulsive about line-up is what they call the sick people in those rooms - the people on their backs with tubes in their noses, broken bones, cancers, strokes and infections, who can't dress or eat, or even empty their bladders without the physical help of those nurses. They call sick people "customers...
...conventional lie is that marketing informs. Maybe it does, peripherally. It's really done to persuade. But is it fine to persuade patients, so you can squeeze more money from them? Is it fine to scare patients into tests and iffy treatments, to persuade people who aren't sick - who are not patients - that they need treatment anyway? It is far from fine to treat patients like customers...
...charity in Glasgow that cares for injured military veterans. On the web, his legend continues to grow, with doctored pictures of Smeaton as superman recently posted. But Smeaton said such claims of superpowers were overblown. "I'm actually exhausted," he said. "And have had to take time off sick from the airport to recover." Which proves that, despite the tributes and spotlight, it's not easy being Smeaton...