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The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Fatal Medical Mistake
The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Fatal Medical Mistake
The idea that a funeral could be planned before a death is both chilling and true: President Garfield lived 79 days after being shot, surgeons probed his wound with unsterilized instruments and fingers, and one of the first physicians on the scene was the first African-American to treat a sitting president-so which actually caused his decline, the bullet or the doctors? What did those 11 physicians do in the hours after the shooting that changed American medicine forever?
In this episode, we trace the events of July 2, 1881…
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