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Abstract

Around 11:00 a.m. on January 20, 2015, Stephen Pasceri arrived at the cardiovascular center at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he had an appointment to speak to Michael Davidson, a 44-year-old surgeon who had performed valve surgery on Pasceri’s mother a few months earlier. Davidson entered an exam room and greeted Pasceri, who fired two shots at the surgeon at close range before killing himself. A team of Brigham surgeons spent 9 hours in the OR in a futile attempt to save Davidson’s life. It was speculated that Pasceri “had some issue” with his mother’s medical treatment. Though she . . .

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Michael Jackson, English-language films, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Medicine, Surgeon, Physician, Hospital, Surgery

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