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How Doctors Killed President Garfield: The 79-Day Medical Tragedy
How Doctors Killed President Garfield: The 79-Day Medical Tragedy
Danger and tragic misjudgment: President James Abram Garfield survived an assassin’s bullet on July 2, 1881, yet physicians’ decisions over the following seventy-nine days are now widely blamed for his death - not the bullet itself. How did ivory-handled revolvers, no presidential security, and medical hubris converge into a national calamity that doctors later call a greater killer than the assassin?
In this episode, we tell the story of what happened before and after the shooting, from Garfield’s rise from a log cabin and…
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