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Article: Reggie Lewis' widow sues doctors who OK'd her husband's return to professional basketball.(Donna Harris-Lewis)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- May 20, 1996
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The widow of Reggie Lewis, the Boston Celtics captain and NBA all-star who, in 1993, collapsed while shooting baskets at a college gym and later died, recently filed a lawsuit against doctors who treated her late husband.
In the lawsuit, which was filed just months before the state's three-year statute of limitations, Donna Harris-Lewis charged that her late husband's treatment by Dr. Gilbert H. Mudge, Jr. and other cardiac specialists at Brigham and Women's Hospital was "rendered carelessly, unskillfully and negligently."
The 27-year-old Lewis collapsed while shooting baskets at Brandeis University gym on July 27, 1993, and was pronounced dead several hours ...