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According to the suit filed at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge last Friday, earlier detection of the lesion—which had tripled in size by the time it was diagnosed at New York Presbyterian Medical Center in March 2002—could have saved Gould’s life...
...Robert J. Mayer, director of the DFCI Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology and Gould’s long-time principal physician, is a defendant in the suit...
...suit, Shearer also alleges that in the period during and after Gould’s diagnosis in New York, doctors at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals reviewed the treatment that Gould received and determined in private meetings that the Feb. 2001 X-ray did indeed show the lesion...
...Villaraigosa as he goes about running the nation's second biggest city, however. He inherits an education system that graduates only 45% of its students from high school, festering gang violence and the worst traffic in the nation. Critics say the mayor-elect is short on substance--"an empty suit," in the words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected to the California state assembly in 1994. He served...
...Courts believe that the suit could have been brought in the 1980s, and we believe it could not have been brought until after the evidence was first fully discovered,” he wrote, referring to a 2001 report by an Oklahoma commission that investigated the riots...