“Eat What You Kill”
December 09, 2024 at 07:24PMWe may Google our symptoms or read up on WebMD, but by and large we trust our doctors. We have little choice—they’re the one’s who’ve been to medical school, they’re the ones who grant us access to the tests we need, they’re the ones with the power of the prescription pad. The idea that they might be lying or even purposefully misdiagnosing us is terrifying, and J. David McSwane’s painstaking investigation into the questionable deaths surrounding beloved doctor Dr. Thomas Weiner of St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Montana, is one of the more chilling malpractice stories I’ve read (and one of the most fantastically executed).
“Mrs. Warwick, I’ve never had to make this call before,” he said. She began to take notes. “I’m sorry.”
“OK?”
“We did not find any cancer cells at all. We can’t find anywhere in his records that he had cancer and found no malignancy at all.” All signs indicated he died from lung failure caused by the drug gemcitabine. Chemotherapy killed him.
As the conversation closed, she asked: “What am I supposed to do with this? What do I do?”
“Get a lawyer,” he said.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2024/12/09/eat-what-you-kill/
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