Ketamine got its start in Belgium in the 1960s as an anesthesia medicine for animals. The FDA approved it as ananestheticfor people in 1970. It was used in treating injured soldiers on the battlefields in the Vietnam War. Emergency responders may give it to an agitated patient who, for ex...
In the 1940s, maggots took an extended leave, replaced on the frontline of infection management by the sulfa drugs and then penicillin. In cases of drug- resistant infections, however, they were called up and, without fanfare or publicity, did what was asked of them. In 1976, they briefly...
I spoke briefly about my younger brother, Jim, who served in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive and saw a full year of combat, and then tried to explain what it was like for him to come home. I tried to explain that as much times as it takes to turn a civilian into a soldier...
General Bruce Palmer Jr., who was a three star corps level commander in Vietnam, said; “We didn’t understand the Vietnamese or the situation, or what kind of war it was. By the time we found out, it was too late.” The US sent units to Vietnam to stay but the soldiers only ...
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power. —W. S. Gilbert ...
Elektra Abundance (Dominique Jackson) in Pose Season 3.(Image credit: BBC/FX/Eric Liebowitz) Monsoon (2019) Directed by openly gay filmmaker Hong Khaou,Monsoonis a beautiful drama about a British Vietnamese man named Kit (Henry Golding ofCrazy Rich Asiansfame) who visits his home country thir...
Vietnam The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Algonquin Books, 2020) Buy Now: bookshop.org The Mountains Sing is something of a duet: Alternating between the perspectives of family matriarch Diệu Lan and her granddaughter Hương, the novel spans nearly a century of Vietna...
A few months into 2014 Leslie began to decline and 2014 got harder and harder and harder until in March of 2015 she passed away. Then the grief. Late 2014 and into 2015 was one of the two hardest times of my life, the other being my 13 months in Vietnam. Below is brief description...
“War,” Irish singer Sinead O’Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half. The act was a sign of protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church. In 1992, these terrible actions against children were far less known than they are today. As such, ...
Holt explores the backstreets of both Hanoi, Vietnam and Bangkok, Thailand in the second series of the TV show. Courtesy Pamela Holt “The reason I love it so much is, one, there is so much to do,” she adds. “And you really can, in the most positive way, lose yourself in Italy...