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I've recently discovered this term, Heroic Medicine, and the little I've read into it I've learned that the term is considered slightly ironic, because it was the patient who had to be "heroic" in order to survive. I'm confused by this definition of why it's called "Heroic Medicine." It seems...

I've recently discovered this term, Heroic Medicine, and the little I've read into it I've learned that the term is considered slightly ironic, because it was the patient who had to be "heroic" in order to survive. I'm confused by this definition of why it's called "Heroic Medicine." It seems...

I am writing an essay comparing C. Wright Mills' view points on the white collar worker in comparison to my own experience in the military. At one point in the introduction of "White Collar," Mills lumps in military men with the rest of the white collar workforce, claiming the white collar...