Word: medicalization
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Arab ambulance drivers, like Arab zookeepers, have learned how to navigate Jerusalem's many borderlines. "I'm suspicious-looking in so many ways," laughs Nasser Izhiman, a volunteer driver and medic for the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city...
...Falcons up and down flights of steps, but in conversation they stress that their job is meant to evaluate and stabilize emergency situations before full paramedics arrive, not to replace them altogether. "The advantage of getting there first is that we can do triage," says Mauricio Rodrigues, a moto-medic for the past six years. "We make a quick and rational analysis of what needs to be done...
...Apart from Abdulla, a second detainee is believed to be a practicing doctor. The BBC reported that Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian-trained medic who worked at hospitals in central England, was arrested along with a woman on the M6 motorway in northern England on Saturday. At least five of the people under custody are thought to be foreign citizens. "We are all very relieved that these terrorists were not Scots or even had any real connection with Scotland," Glasgow Muslim MP Mohammed Sarwar told TIME. "We have 60,000 Muslims living in Scotland and most of them live...
...Lozano says he went around to the other side of the car, opened the door and saw that Sgrena had been shot in the left shoulder. He says he picked her up and laid her down on the wet ground whereupon the medic tore her shirt open to find the wound and dress it. After a blanket was then wrapped around her, he says, "I picked her up and put her in the back of my Humvee to take her to the 'cash' [Combat Support Hospital]." Speeding down the road, radio calls were put out to indicate that Lozano...
...that point, he says, Andrea Carpani, the driver of the car, jumped out with his hands raised high, "We're Italians! We're Italians!" he cried. The soldiers retracted their weapons and heard a woman's voice inside. It was Sgrena. When the medic opened the back door, Nicola Calipari was lying unconscious on the seat next to her. "For Calipari, it was too late," Lozano says, adding that attempts to resuscitate him failed...