John Stanley Fisher, a 75-year-old white man, went into Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip on Long Island expecting the slow, ordinary rhythms of recovery�monitors beeping, nurses making rounds, daylight fading into the long hush of night shift. Instead, in the early hours of September 8, 1987, he abruptly crashed into a medical emergency and could not be brought back, dying at the hospital while staff fought to revive him.
In the months that followed, Fisher�s death was pulled into a
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