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Carol Bender

JAMA. 1970;212(8):1376.

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WHO WILL SAY I am mad? It was all in the interest of science, was it not? But let me tell you the whole story.

It is impossible to say when the idea first came to me. I did not envy the venerable doctor his reputation, nor his wealth. It was his three-chambered heart, so well preserved in a bottle by his bed, that haunted me. I felt a mitral insufficiency in its presence, and I longed to own it.

Yes, you fancy me mad. But I was so cautious, so intelligent. The radio played "Maladie de Roger" softly. I took my truncus arteriosus and proceeded quietly to the old man's room. I stood under the double aortic arch and shook my arteriovenous fistula. He never suspected that I was watching as he slept.

Every night for a week I watched, never moving. On the eighth night, I dropped my . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Congenital Anomalies Section, Epidemiology Branch, Dental Health Center, Division of Dental Health, Bureau of Health Professions, Education and Manpower Training, National Institutes of Health, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Dental Health Center, Division of Dental Health, 14th Ave and Lake St, San Francisco 94118 (Mrs. Bender).

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