Dr. Verschuer was highly known for his work with twins, and this is where Mengele found his fascination for twins. Mengele went on to earn his medical degree in 1937 (Museum). In 1938 Mengele wanted a part of the Nazi action and joined the SS. The SS or Schutzstaffel was responsible for population policy and settlement, identification of ethnicity, security, and intelligence collection and analysis. In June of 1940 Mengele was drafted into the Army, and he volunteered for medical service.
The doctors that entered Holmesburg prison viewed the prisoners as a “fertile field” of investigatory opportunity. Albert Kligman referred to them as “Acres of Skin”. Dr. Kligman’s research programs were established to investigate diseases and train residents in dermatology at the University of Pennyslvania, but in time, it strayed from it’s mission and began disregarding protocol and violating
He went back to Giacomo Hospital where he served as a nurse, became administrator and after, bursar of the hospital. Working at the Hospital he saw the way other nurses treated the patients and was not pleased. He finally left the Hospital and with two other men started working at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Rome. His vision was to work with “men of good will who would consecrate themselves purely
After a demand Terri's husband won for a malpractice sue from one of the many surgical procedure she had to face in their trials to stimulate her brain and try to recover some function, a whole storm of family discrepancies, legal issues in courts and also the hand of politicians covered their lives. After 8 years of hardly trying to do everything for Terri's recovery with no signs of hope or just the minimum improvement , her husband ask to remove the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG), which is a “ flexible tube placed through the abdominal wall and into the stomach that allows nutrition, fluids and/or medications to be put directly into the stomach” 2 . This PEG tube was maintaining Terri alive preventing malnutrition and dehydration. According to Terri's husband, she would not want to live in that condition and this was expressed in court after court. In an article published in 2005 , Dr. Joseph J. Fins stated that “this was a right-to-die case”.
Boys in carpentry classes made games for the sick soldiers or clothes hooks and magazine stands for naval hospitals. Girls in sewing class knitted and sewed items for soldiers. (redcross.org) The children of America made boxes of gifts for the children in Europe helping to promote international friendliness. The Red Cross was obviously the organization that helped us keep healthy and win the war. Although many people died, the Red Cross helped save more than anyone could think.
While at these concentration camps Jews were expected to work and take orders from the German Army. On one particular day, while at this concentration camp, he and his work detail was sent to clean a hospital that was designated for wounded German soldiers. While on the way to the hospital Simon noticed a cemetery for the soldiers that had been killed or may have died due to other reasons. Simon said that he felt envy of these soldiers because “Each had a sunflower to connect him with the living world, and butterflies to visit his grave. For me there would be no sunflower.
The second source for the poisoning theory was a biography of Franz Xaver Niemetschek, first published in Prague in 1798. The biography is based on true statements from friends and family; however, the point of the biography leans towards distortion and embellishment of facts. The passage reads: Upon his return to Vienna he at once took up the requiem and worked with great diligence and lively interest; but his illness became visibly worse and put him in a dark and melancholy mood. His wife was greatly distressed by his condition. Once she drove with him to the prater to divert his mind and liven his
Esther is Ishmael's nurse at Benin House, the rehabilitation center where he is brought after the war. She treats Ishmael's wounds and encourages him to talk about his experiences. “I told her the whole story about how I got shot, not because I really wanted to, but because I thought that if I told her some of the gruesome truth of my war years she would be afraid of me and would cease asking questions” (Beah 155). At first Ishmael only wanted to scare her but after a while he realized that she really does care for him. There relationship became possible because of a quiz that the kids at the rehabilitation center took.
Honecker himself was married twice, the first time being with Edith Baumann, but when the marriage dissipated he remarried with Margot Feist Honecker, who interestingly enough, would work alongside Honecker in the GDR political scene as the Minister of Education for the GDR supervising the famed Educational system of the communist country (Britannica 4). Honecker himself had an interesting personality he mostly kept to himself, but interviews with people close to him, more specifically his Bodyguard/Butler showed Honecker was a rigid and very much disciplined and in control of himself (Lothar 18). To put this into perspective, he is claimed to have quit smoking and drinking almost overnight after being appointed as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and from then on lived a very balanced life, with a whole new lifestyle, something the average person can have extreme difficulty in achieving, with new diet, routines, activities, etc. (Lothar 2). Honecker is also said to have been relatively calm and extremely focused especially in times of stress and work, and in some occasions with his colleagues while traveling, Honecker liked to play a few card games such as Skat to pass the time (Lothar 18).
She became increasingly involved and interested in psychiatric issues when serving in the United States Army and working at the 312th Station Hospital and School for Military Neuropsychiatry for the European Theatre, during World War II. The patients would arrive with what we know today, as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Silverstein, 2008). Peplau witnessed various experimental treatments these soldiers recieved, “...with horror.” (Silverstein, 2008, p. 725). She felt that some of these treatments, like insulin shock therapy and ether treatments just worsened their conditions both mentally and physically, often with permanent consequences. Despite their mental state, she felt it was important to try to talk