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  • Actually, teh biggest myth is stating that the uninsured don't get treatment at all ... my brother is an emergency room doctor and is constantly threatened by gang members (not insured) to save "their gun-shot brethren" ... and these are the peopel Obama expects will 'buy' their mandated insurance ... what a joke! yuri

    Public option pullback? 2009

  • If you'll get dressings and bandages ready I'll look up 'gun-shot wounds' and see what's to be done.

    Chapter 28 2010

  • There were sixteen men in pursuit of the doctress, and sixteen gun-shot wounds were found in her body when examined by the surgeon of the post.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Throughout the day a stream of gun-shot wound victims, including a 61-year-old woman, were taken to Getúlio Vargas hospital, which reputedly treats the highest number of gunshot wounds in Latin America each year.

    Rio de Janeiro gun battle sees toddler and photographer among casualties Tom Phillips in Belo Horizonte 2010

  • The question was gun-shot injuries, not injuries due to suicide.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Health bill and gun ownership 2009

  • SeaDrive: The question was gun-shot injuries, not injuries due to suicide.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Health bill and gun ownership 2009

  • Hannan and Krishnapada has died in the spot in that gun-shot.

    Border Security Force (India) shoots down two BDR members 2008

  • For instance, let's say I shoot a man in the shoulder who has taken a large dose of aspirin; he dies of blood loss, but the gun-shot wound itself would not have been enough to kill him if it weren't for the aspirin's prevention of his blood from clotting.

    Dawkins Laban 2006

  • It is cratered with deep and unbleeding gun-shot wounds and when a victim stabs at it with a spear the weapon bursts dustily and unhindered through the torso and out the back.

    One hears about these things happening... Arbogast 2008

  • The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de la Perle.

    Les Miserables 2008

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