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Article: Questions persist following suicide Did medicine fail Pembroke woman?
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1996
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Did Judith Curren really have to die? Did she -- and her
psychiatrist husband -- fail to explore all potential treatments for
her list of painful ailments? Or did the medical establishment fail
her, abandoning her to Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his suicide machine?
The questions persist in the wake of the Pembroke woman's death in
Michigan on Aug. 15, her bloodstream filled with painkillers,
stimulants and tranquilizers.
Her husband, Dr. Franklin Curren, remains bitter, saying that the
medical community failed to treat her pain from fibromyalgia and
chronic fatigue syndrome adequately, and that some Boston doctors
expressed such skepticism about her illnesses that she became
"totally ...