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Many people gasped several weeks ago when Boston Celtics captain Reggie Lewis slumped to the parquet floor during a playoff game at Boston Garden. In part, their memory of Hank Gathers, the college basketball star who only three years earlier collapsed and died during a game in Los Angeles, was simply too striking to ignore. A few days after Lewis' fall, there was another gasp when doctors at different Boston hospitals not only made different diagnoses but also bickered in the popular media about how to interpret Lewis' diagnostic tests. Newspaper and magazine reporters scrambled to unscramble the puzzle, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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