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...Leonard Bias died of cocaine intoxication. This interrupted normal electrical control of his heartbeat, which resulted in sudden onset of seizures and cardiac arrest. The toxicological study we did in addition to the cocaine analysis showed no alcohol or other drugs in his body at the time of his death...
...involuntary manslaughter was a notorious case in point. Despite a record of having been fired by hospitals in two states, being legally blind in one eye and demonstrating skills that were described by a colleague as those of "a first-year resident," Billig had risen to be chief cardiac surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the nation's premier military medical centers...
Enter the Cardiac Kids...
With one out in the seventh, though, the relentless Crimson squad--confronted with the possibility of losing both ends of a doubleheader for the first time since early 1982--earned its reputation as the present-day Cardiac Kids...
Last week, as Cardiac Surgeon Jack Copeland was examining his patient in the sixth-floor intensive care unit at University Medical Center in Tucson, he noticed that Drummond was slurring his words. Soon afterward, the patient's right hand became immobile. Though Copeland hoped that Drummond's problems might be caused by abnormal levels of blood sugar or the aftereffects of sleeping medication, he feared the worst. "I had to admit it to myself," he says, "but I didn't want to." A neurologist confirmed that Drummond had suffered a mild stroke, most probably from tiny blood clots forming...