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The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Preventable Decline
The Doctors Who Killed a President: Garfield's Preventable Decline
The sight that should stop you cold: a drifter who couldn't pay rent chose an ivory-handled revolver because he thought it would look better in a museum, and he stood in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station at 9:30 a.m, on July 2, 1881. James A. Garfield did not die of the bullet lodged behind his pancreas; he died after eighty days of medical decisions that ignored available science. Who, ultimately, killed James Garfield?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the shooting to the president’s death and the…
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