The Nation - News from April 9, 1986
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George Washington University Hospital has suspended a prominent cardiac surgeon pending the outcome of internal and criminal investigations into the death of a 66-year-old patient, identified as Mary Fisk, who was taken off a life-support system and injected with a medication sometimes used to stop the heart, sources who requested anonymity told the Washington Post. The woman had undergone an unsuccessful bypass operation on March 17. The surgeon, Dr. Benjamin L. Aaron, the Washington hospital’s director of chest and cardiovascular surgery, removed the bullet lodged one inch from President Reagan’s heart after an assassination attempt in March, 1981.
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