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After a stint at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Weil moved to California to pursue his interest in saving critically-ill patients by working as a professor and researcher.
Dr. Max Harry Weil, pioneer in critical care medicine and CPR, dies at 84 2011
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David Curtis, MSF's emergency coordinator for Tunisia and Libya, confirmed that a ferry converted into a hospital had left the Tunisian city of Sfax on Wednesday to evacuate 60 to 70 "critically-ill patients" from Misrata.
NATO Strikes Tripoli as Gadhafi Forces Shell Misrata Charles Levinson 2011
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Without a scintilla of empathy or sympathy for the critically-ill woman, Bishop Thomas Olmsted said, "The direct killing of an unborn child is always immoral, no matter the circumstances."
Angela Bonavoglia: Women Take On Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church 2010
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Without a scintilla of empathy or sympathy for the critically-ill woman, Bishop Thomas Olmsted said, "The direct killing of an unborn child is always immoral, no matter the circumstances."
Angela Bonavoglia: Women Take On Gender Apartheid in the Catholic Church 2010
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Multiple calls, usually including direct intervention from a physician, may pressure an insurance company into changing their ruling -- but the critically-ill often lack the time and emotional energy to wage such battles.
Jacob M. Appel: Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise 2009
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If you rely on appearances and not actual facts, including the fact that tens of thousands of critically-ill Canadians rush to the U.S. for much faster service.
Socialized Medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Confined to her bed due to failing health, on May 5, 1919, a critically-ill Madame Walker sent word to the NAACP's Anti-Lynching Conference at Carnegie Hall
Michael Henry Adams: Happy 100th Birthday NAACP: New York Landmarks of Black Greatness 2009
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Those are not remarks that you make about a critically-ill person.
Michael Jackson Public Funeral Neverland Ranch Friday, July 3 2009
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However, parents frequently decide to produce additional offspring in order to provide matching bone-marrow donors for their critically-ill children.
Jacob M. Appel: Should We Really Fear Reproductive Human Cloning? 2009
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What is clear is that, soon enough, the technological prowess of heroic medicine will come face to face with the politicization of the judiciary, likely over the incapacitated body of a critically-ill justice.
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