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West Virginia Record | Learning from Dr.
Harron
2/10/2006 www.wvrecord.com West Virginia's Legal Journal
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Learning from Dr.
Harron
Friday, February 10, 2006
In the tragic tale that is America's affair with the fire-retarding mineral asbestos, Dr.
Ray Harron of Bridgeport is one of the most villainous villains.Even the New York Times splashed Harron on its front page last fall, after a federal judge accused he and several other radiologists of diagnosing for dollars - suggesting that thousands of people got sick from inhaling sand particles so they might sue companies for cash.Harron, who reportedly has diagnosed some 53,000 people as sick from inhaling asbestos, admitted that he never even looked at the 2,700 diagnoses he alone submitted in the Mississipi lawsuits in question."These diagnoses were driven by neither health nor justice," wrote U.S...
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