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The Bullet They Never Found: How Doctors Killed President Garfield
The Bullet They Never Found: How Doctors Killed President Garfield
Half of what killed President James A. Garfield happened after the bullet lodged behind his pancreas - he never touched the spinal cord, yet Garfield lost eighty pounds in seventy-nine days and died while doctors argued over where to probe next. How did a survivable wound become fatal under the hands of the nation's leading physicians?
In this episode, we tell what happened on the morning of July 2, 1881, at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, who shot the president, and how medical certainty and repeated interventions…
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