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Flight attendants cope with the trauma of fatal disasters
Purl is an example of postcrash syndrome among airline personnel: a deep trauma that combines survivor guilt, depression, rage and an array of physical symptoms ranging from digestive problems and hypertension to sleeplessness and heart ailments. Some survivors develop phobias or panic when they hear sounds that remind them of the crash, and many are so worn out by the continuing anguish that they say they are simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury...
...unfortunate victim I am offended by his headline. The use of the word "says" is an insult to my credibility, and evokes a sense of doubt as to whether or not the incident was racially motivated. In addition, the tone of the article does not convey the emotional trauma experienced, only the physical damage. A strict presentation of facts does not allow a reader to understand how it feels to have one's rights violated for reasons that cannot be changed. I hope that my statement will make this paper more sensitive to the necessity of presenting racial conflicts...
...Economics major, Eichner hopes to attend med school and become an emergency room physician in a trauma center. He has considerable practical experience in that area--two summers working in hospital emergency rooms...
...past, hospitals had to perform painful, dangerous and expensive tests known as angiograms on patients with head trauma. "Now any hospital can get the same information in a few minutes without danger to the patient. We're saving lives with this," Rumbaugh said...