Word: healer
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...years could not have been a calculation," admitted state senator Art Torres, a Woo ally. "Dick Riordan has heart." Los Angeles has to hope it's a big one. The fractured city, whose citizens still grimace at the recollection of that videotaped beating and those raging fires, needs a healer as well...
...they say, doctors like Kevorkian go unregulated, unsupervised, abiding only by those safeguards they impose on themselves. They alone make judgments about the patient's state of mind; about what means, short of death, might relieve the suffering. They transform the image of the doctor from pure, emphatic healer to something more ambiguous, even sinister, whose purpose at the patient's bedside is no longer clear...
...also look at other recent autobiographies and biographies of Black Americans: Lorene Cary's Black Ice, General Benjamin O. Davis Jr.'s Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot's Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer, James's Comer's Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family, to name...
Treatments for cancer and AIDS are also high on his list. One healer, for example, claims to have isolated a substance in urine that turns tumor cells back to normal. The new office might also look into a faddish AIDS therapy that has patients paying up to $20,000 to be hooked up to dialysis-like machines that pump ozone into the bloodstream...
...headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients not out of murderous fantasies but deeper into them. After you've spent a short time in Bosnia, your mind seems to slip into hallucination...