Word: smialek
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With that unequivocal statement, the Maryland medical examiner, Dr. John Smialek, last week ended some of the widespread speculation about the shocking death of the University of Maryland basketball star. Bias, 22, who had just been drafted by the Boston Celtics, had been in perfect health. He did not, as rumored, have the genetic disorder Marfan's syndrome. Nor did he suffer from any previously undetected defect in his heart or circulatory system. Bias had simply taken some cocaine--perhaps for the first time--and, as a direct result, died...
...autopsy established that Bias had a large, strong heart and was in excellent shape. His mucous membranes were clear, indicating that he was probably not a veteran snorter of cocaine. Dr. Smialek reported that Bias had no more than "an average level of sensitivity" to the drug and avoided attributing the 6.5 mg-per-liter concentration of cocaine in the athlete's bloodstream to an "overdose." "This particular concentration might not kill another individual," the medical examiner said. "On the other hand, another individual could die at a lower level...
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