Word: trauma
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...gravest threats to anyone severely burned or injured -- or to soldiers wounded in battle -- is massive, system-wide bacterial infection. Such infection with toxic, "gram-negative" bacteria kills up to 100,000 Americans a year, many of them surgical patients and trauma victims. Last week researchers at the University of California at San Diego reported a major victory in the war against these microbes. Using injections of a biotech product called monoclonal antibodies in patients suffering from toxic infections and septic shock, they reduced the expected death rate 40%, in some cases rescuing patients from the brink of death...
Many children's rights advocates, mental health professionals and terrified guardians say the no-exception policy is unconscionable. Experts are worried that children who lose both parents may suffer mental trauma, including deep feelings of grief and abandonment, and serious psychological problems in later life...
...know, my wife died, 10 years ago, and she was a very sensitive person. In part I think she died because of this, or at least her deep trauma associated with it. I don't mean to say she thought I had blood on my hands. But she felt the trauma that our nation was in. And she was with me on occasions when people said I had blood on my hands. And it was a terrible situation...
...back to the point; I think our nation to some degree has been liberated from this terrible trauma of Vietnam...
These attacks--on civilian centers--caused more than 75 casualities, including at least three deaths from heart attacks and three deaths--including the death of a three-year-old--from asphyxiation. Israel also endured severe psychological trauma from the constant threat of chemical and biological attack and Hussein's desire to turn Tel Aviv into a "crematorium...