090 Margaret
Bacon. 150r. 6 days. Complete documented death from
a stroke
related to her anesthesia for a bone marrow
operation. Excellent additional
documentation from medical
records as to
her relatively good condition near time of
radiation (and
her desire not to have radical intervention for
cancer).
It would
be nice to have someone familiar with her last
weeks to
discuss them, but we do not have such a person.
Three of her
family, however, have gone on record about their
anger at
discovering the way she died, which they had never
known, they
say. Their written testimonies for the
April
hearing should
be available.
Doctors
would like, I expect, to erase the sentence on
page 37 of
Ninth Report to DOD that refers to Bacon's death as
an
"anesthesia-related death."
This fact was not recorded in
her Patient
History, and her death was described in other ways
in subsequent
writings of Saenger and the team.
Her full
medical records, however, make everything more
than clear.