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Word: ravenholt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths (out of 7,837) in 1956 were listed as caused by staph. But Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt estimates in the American Journal of Public Health that fully 100 and perhaps more than 200 deaths should have been so listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Staph of Death | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

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