Some are only small sores, others are open wounds that can lead to serious complications.
Add a ventilator, dialysis, and open wounds to care for, and the difficulties only accumulate.
But it's also clear the president's team has some open wounds from its last brush with black voters.
"Jerry Sandusky's statements today continue to open wounds for his victims, and the victims of child sexual abuse everywhere, " the university said on Monday in a statement.
Dr Metcalf said the Egyptians used natural remedies, such as chewing willow bark - which contains properties similar to aspirin - and honey on open wounds to kill bacteria.
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Drug-resistant bacterial strains are created in hospitals because not only is there a large population of weakened patients with open wounds to infect, but the use of antibiotics is widespread.
He took care not to re-open old wounds and his opposite number, President Fernando De la Rua, pledged Argentina would only use peaceful means to press its claim for the islands.
The first wave arrived with similar injuries: severed limbs, open fractures and puncture wounds from shrapnel.
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Back we go to the day when old wounds were open and divisions among Americans were fresh.
Meredith's brother Lyle said that he felt the wounds had been left open.
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Let us stop the hemorrhage, let us bind the wounds, let us open a new chapter of durable peace and harmony.
Veronica Giuliani presented with wounds in both hands and feet, as well as in her side, which wounds were observed to open and close on command.
Long-festering wounds and resentments burst out into the open.
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"We've to keep an open mind on how this man came to suffer the wounds from which he died, " he said.
Still nursing his wounds, Mr Rudd has seized on their anxieties to wage psychological rather than open war.
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