Word: treating
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King and his associates, out on bail, are angry. Said School Lawyer Oren Briggs, oblivious to the irony: "I wouldn't treat a dog like they've treated us." Why were children beaten? King, a Fundamentalist, referred to Proverbs 22: 15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." He decided on his own that plastic pipe was what the Scripture intended. Michael, 11, did not see it that way. "They didn't have the true word of God there," he said...
...little that is known about pain and how to treat it is often misunderstood or ignored by physicians. A 1973 study by Psychiatrists Richard Marks and Edward Sachar of New York City's Montefiore Hospital found that nearly 75% of hospitalized patients receiving narcotics for moderate to severe pain failed to be relieved by the drugs. A review of their charts showed why. The dosages prescribed by their doctors were 25% to 50% less than what was needed to relieve severe pain. Records showed that nurses had further reduced these dosages substantially. The result: some patients were receiving less...
...trouble comprehending acute pain caused by injury, chronic pain was relegated to the occult realm of medicine men, sorcerers and shamans. Ancient Egyptians believed that chronic pain was caused by spirits, gods and the dead, but by the 16th century B.C. they had discovered a corporeal way to treat it. Opium is recommended as an analgesic in the Ebers Papyrus, an early reference work listing nearly a thousand prescriptions used in the times of the Pharaoh Amenhotep. Egyptians and some Eastern cultures believed that the physical locus of pain was the heart. This...
Over the years he has become well known to some of the tribes, he says, and describes the Indians as "simple, honest, loyal people. They are very trustworthy as long as you treat them as gentlemen...
...facing the world beyond the College that makes me apprehensive--I am worried about how Harvard will start to treat me. I am worried about being taken...