9/11 Cancer Killed Him. First He Had to Prove He Was There.
Michael Dorian was a veterinary technician living with AIDS when the towers fell. He put on scrubs, got past the barricades at Ground Zero, and spent 24 hours on the pile pouring saline into the eyes of firefighters blinded by asbestos and concrete dust. Fifteen years later he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive skin cancer that had already reached stage 4, one of tens of thousands of 9/11-linked cancer diagnoses that keep accumulating decades after the attacks.
His friend Neil Adams, author of From The Pile, joins Joelle Kaufman to tell the rest of it: the fight with the September 11th…
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