Saw that on CBS tonight. Fascinating story.
WHERE did that federal study on rare cancers of the Lost River Valley go?
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This hip may have been one of a troubled type. Recalls & litigation are happening. His new ‘doctor’ should be ashamed.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2960037-4/fulltext
Free registration at the link, or search for ‘cobalt hips’ and you’ll see not all is rosy on the medical manufacturing side of things...
He’s lucky it didn’t follow the usual life cycle of an eventually successful “House” diagnosis — it’s some rare genetic disease (operation #1), it’s an infection from an exotic place (better break into his house while nobody’s around), it’s cancer (operation #2 (life threatening)), oh here we are, it’s cobalt poisoning, and I’m a genius and you’re all idiots for not seeing that.