Word: marsicano
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...attentive and compassionate listener, Pepper has constructed his book around interviews with former cancer patients at Memorial. These survivors offer considerable testimony of bad or even potentially fatal medical advice proffered by the physicians they saw first. Estelle Marsicano was scoffed at by her family doctor. "My liver is large too-want to feel it?" he asked. When John Alexion consulted a prominent urologist about his prostate cancer, the patient recalled, "the elderly doctor proceeded to lay a bomb on me. The only procedure he would consider was surgical castration and radical removal of the prostate. I thought, 'Jesus...
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