Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they need help. If somehow accused of maltreatment, they deny it. The few who do want aid, frequently do not know where to find it. Far too often, those who are asked to help do not know how to provide it. Even the experts disagree on how best to treat the offenders...
...delighted that the public outcry thwarted the Defense Department's plans to wound dogs by firing squads so that military doctors can learn to treat the injuries [Aug. 8]. But I mourn for the pigs, cattle, monkeys and other animals that continue to endure hell in slaughterhouses and research laboratories. When they cry out, no one listens...
...understand the reasoning behind the Pentagon's decision to wound deliberately a laboratory dog and then kill the poor creature after military physicians treat the animal. The doctors who are willing to participate in such a program cannot possibly be sensitive to human suffering...
Doctors who want to learn how to treat gunshot injuries should work in the emergency room of a city hospital, where they will find a variety of wounds. Certainly military physicians do not need to shoot dogs to get this kind of experience...
...Called the Wound Laboratory, the $70,000, 50-ft.-long firing range would have received 75 pigs for its initial experiments and, thereafter, up to 80 dogs a year. The plan: to anesthetize or restrain the animals, shoot them in the hind legs, and then let 150 military doctors treat the wounds. Once treated, the animals would have been killed. But news of the lab's plans triggered a weeklong public relations nightmare for the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and effectively shut down the lab before it opened...