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...foreign flavor, the fake mission chief was given an Italian accent and the exotic name of Russi. His phony deputy would be an Arabic speaker from the Middle East while a third team member, who had lived in Australia, would pretend to hail from Brisbane. Other impersonators included a doctor, three nurses and a reporting team from Venezuela's left-wing Telesur station...
...still die each year of tuberculosis, malaria, dengue fever and other treatable illnesses. As for myself, I wondered how something as treatable as vernal conjunctivitis, which generally afflicts allergy sufferers, could lead to blindness. I had to go back to the U.S. to find out what at least six doctors here couldn't decipher; a doctor in Michigan diagnosed my problem in five minutes. "You have a case of vernal conjunctivitis," the cornea specialist told me. "If your doctors over there had looked under your eyelid they would have caught it, or at least they should have." (See "The Year...
...fact, they did look. A fairly senior doctor hastily flipped my eyelid but failed to notice anything, despite the development of bumps similar to cobblestones that were scraping my cornea every time I blinked. A simple steroid would have reduced the swelling (as it did once I was prescribed one in the States) but I was told over and over that steroid drops would make it worse. Instead, in addition to dozens of antibiotic and antiviral drops, the doctors in Jakarta "cleaned" my eye by scraping off a layer, hoping a new layer would grow over the damaged center that...
...already told myself that I was fortunate to have the means to seek treatment overseas, and that I would not pursue legal action if my vision was restored. After nine months, thousands of dollars and a procedure performed by an American doctor, about 50% of my vision has been restored. The imbalance between the right and left eye, which has normal vision, causes routine dizziness and discomfort, but I remain optimistic that I will get my right eye back...
Gosling, an award-winning journalist whose rumpled persona has endeared him to generations of viewers, went on to recount "a hot afternoon" when he smothered the unidentified man in his hospital bed. In some accounts - Gosling retold the story in a number of interviews with British news organizations - a doctor helpfully absented himself so Gosling could do the deed. "Sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law," the presenter declared in one interview. (See a brief history of assisted suicide...