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Could modern medicine have saved Abraham Lincoln?
by Leattle Pablo | May 18, 2007 at 02:00 pm
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Abraham Lincoln might have survived being shot if today's medical technology had existed in 1865.
Given that scenario, the question is whether Lincoln would have recovered well enough to return to office, says a doctor and historian who planned to speak Friday at an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of historic figures....
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at 14:48 on May 18th, 2007
Interesting story, but then i'm a civil war buff and a fan or alternate histories, so it's right up my alley.