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Floyd Landis simply won't give up.
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The doctor responsible for stunting the child known as "Ashley X" committed suicide.
Dr. Daniel F. Gunther died from toxic asphyxia from inhaling car exhaust, said Greg Hewett of the King County Medical Examiner's Office. His time of death was listed as 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 30. The 49-year-old was a pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington.
In 2004, Gunther and his colleague Dr. Douglas S. Diekema performed a hysterectomy, removed the breast tissue and started hormone treatment to permanently halt the growth of a 6-year-old disabled girl so her parents could continue to care for her at home. The doctors wrote about the procedure, which was performed at Children's Hospital, in the October 2006 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
I can't say I feel that sorry for him. After all, what he did to that child was illegal to say nothing of unethical.
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Snowball, the celebrated Oregon doe, will spend the rest of her life in captivity, though she will not be living with the family who raised her for six years.
Her offspring, Bucky, was released into the wild.
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Luckily for the vulnerable, "assisted suicide" has failed to catch fire anyplace outside of Oregon.
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