The patient’s cerebral arteries were “so calcified that when tapped with tweezers they sounded like stone,” Dr. Victoria Giffi informed her audience. He’d died suddenly at age 53 after suffering a massive stroke — but the doctors in attendance weren’t entirely convinced by this seemingly simple explanation. The patient also happened to be involved in […]
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