traumatic
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“Poetry is expression, poetry is life-changing, lifesaving, which sounds very dramatic, but it’s not. Some of the things the students have written about are very traumatic,” Valenzuela said.
From Los Angeles Times
The teacher has since been discharged from hospital, police said, adding they were "continuing to support the victim whilst they recover from this traumatic event".
From BBC
“It was an incredibly traumatic experience,” her mother wrote in the comments beneath the Instagram post.
From Los Angeles Times
Among other things, it helped defend the league from lawsuits by former players alleging the sport caused traumatic head injuries.
The researchers also examined cases where patients survived against expectations, along with outcomes in traumatic cardiac arrest, when the heart stops beating after severe injury such as major bleeding or chest trauma.
From Science Daily
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