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Hemorrhage, Part 2: The Dictator Who Feared His Doctors
Season 3
Episode 14
Published 1 year, 2 months ago
Description
A dictator whose autopsy appeared on a newspaper’s front page. A lifelong distrust of doctors with deadly consequences. And a surprising medical use for leeches in the 1950s.
Your patient. Your diagnosis. Your decision.
An interactive historical medicine case involving catastrophic bleeding, delayed care, anticoagulation, autopsy evidence, blood-clotting decisions, and the final illness of a terrible dictator.