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How Doctors Turned a Survivable Bullet into a Deadly Infection
How Doctors Turned a Survivable Bullet into a Deadly Infection
A president was shot in a crowded train station yet missed his spine and every major organ - and still died weeks later from pus, collapsed lungs, and sepsis. How did eleven doctors, unwashed hands, and repeated probe-and-open wound care turn a survivable bullet wound into a fatal infection?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the shooting at a Washington train depot to the medical decisions that followed, describing who was present, how the wound was treated, and why his death certificate listed sepsis rather…
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