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How Doctors Killed a President: The Bullet They Couldn't Find
How Doctors Killed a President: The Bullet They Couldn't Find
A sitting president survived two gunshots on July 2, 1881, yet lost eighty pounds over seventy-nine days while surgeons probed and failed to locate a bullet that lay behind his pancreas; how did the men sworn to save him end up doing the damage? Who made the crucial choices that turned a survivable wound into a fatal decline?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station shooting through the subsequent seventy-nine days of care and decline, tracing the actions of the arresting officer, the…
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