How doctors killed a president

James A. Garfield was born dirt poor in an Ohio cabin, worked as a janitor in college and was a Union general during the Civil War, but he could not survive the backward expertise of numerous physicians.

‘Garfield’s terrible doctors and Alexander Graham Bell’s metal detector’

“When President James A. Garfield was shot on July 2nd, 1881, a mere three months and 28 days after his inauguration, the nation was shocked. Lincoln’s assassination was deemed a sort of war casualty, a freak occurrence brought on by Civil War, not the opening of a floodgate, so presidents had no security detail and moved about in public places like anyone else. It was easy, therefore, for a disgruntled office-seeker/nutjob with a delusional amount of self-regard like Charles J. Guiteau to approach Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, D.C., and shoot him twice. One bullet penetrated his lower back; the other grazed his right arm.”

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